THE WILD SPORTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA: BEING THE NARATIVE OF A HUNTING EXPEDITION FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. By Captain William Cornwallis Harris. Briar Patch Press Edition.

(1840) 1987 Briar Patch Press edition. 8vo (157 x 235mm). Ppxxxi,359. Colour plates by the author, map, decorative end-papers. Gilt titles to brown bonded leather, spine titled and decorated in gilt, silk marker, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers.

"...Being the narative of a hunting expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn." Facsimile reprint from the fourth edition. This edition had two additional chapters dealing with Dingaan's massacre of Retief's party. Chapters include: Voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope; Journey from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town; Journey from Graham's Town to Graaf Reinet; Graaff Reinet - and final prepartions for our journey into the interior; From Graaff Reinet, bu the snowy Mountains, to the borders of the Colony; From the boundary of the Colony, across the Great Orange River, to Kuruman; From Kuruman to Little Chooi; To the Meritsane River; Hunting at Meritsane; To Mimori, and hunting on the Molopo; Mosegra, the capital of the Chief Moselekate; History of Chaka, surnamed 'the Bloody'; History of Chaka, concluded; Mosega to the Kurrichane Mountains; Kapain, and visit from the Chief Moselekatse; Residence at Kapain; Kapain to the Mariqua River; The Mariqua River to Tolaan, residence of the heir apprent; The Matabili described, the River Simalakate; Kalipi's Commando, the Cashan Mountains; rhinoceros and wild buffalo huntin alon the Cashan Mountains; elephant hunting in the Cashan Mountains; Elephant hunting, lion shooting from the waggons; Hippopotamous shooting, hunting in the Valley of the Limpopo; Excursion to the wastward of the Limpopo, and a journey to the northward across the Cashan Mountains; Hunting the cameleopard, or giraffe; Return to the southward from the Tropic of Capricorn; Interview with Um'Nombate, and journey through the Cashan Mountains to the south-eastward; Discovery of a new antelope, final departure from the Cashan Mountains towards the River Vaal; Exit from Moseletse's Dominions, and passage across the Nama-Hari; Three days' solitary wandering in the wilderness; Journey resumed, to the 'Gy Koup, or Vet Riviere of the emigrants; Plundered by Bushman hordes, and left a wreck in the desert; Night attack on the marauders; Excursion on horseback in quest of assistance, and meeting with the emigrant farmers; Return to civilsation, and arrival in Cape Colony; Sketch of the emigration of the border colonists; Sketch of the Emigration resumed - treacherous massacre of Retief and his party by Dingaan, King of the Zooloos; Fall of Uys in an abortive invasion of the Zooloo territories, annihilation of the Natal Settlers, death of Maritz; Demolition of the Zooloo nation, convention with Dingaan, establishment of the emigrants at Port Natal; Proposal. Zoological appendix.