Sketches of Life and Sport in South-Eastern Africa

In this book of African hunting adventures, the author details his time in Natal hunting and living with the natives of this region, including successful hunting of Hyenas, lion, Hippopotamus, buffalo, leopard, python, and much more.

From inside the book:
Mr. Charles Hamilton had, upon many occasions, narrated to me his personal intercourse with, and observations upon his wanderings in South-Eastern Africa. This greatly interested me as the course he took was different to that commonly pursued by Europeans, who keep as much as possible to the beaten track, and make towns their headquarters.
Our author became a native for the time being, and lived with the natives for many months. He entered into their pursuits, and threw off all European dress, satisfied to be clothed with the skin of a leopard, or of any other animal. His adventures appeared so original that many of his friends, myself among the number, requested him to work up his notes and publish them, as they were likely to prove of great interest to the public, and serviceable to those wishing to settle in the colony of Natal.


CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Arrival at D'Urban.
CHAPTER II.
Pietermaritzburg
CHAPTER III.
Horse-breeding in Pietermaritzburg
CHAPTEE IV.
Hunting.— Adventures with Snakes on the Zwaart Kop
CHAPTER V.
A"Trek" into the Far Interior
CHAPTER VI.
Tiger-cat Hunt.--Hyenas—— Ostriches
CHAPTEE VII.
The Dutch. — Lion Hunt
CHAPTEE VIII.
A few Words on Missionary Labours
CHAPTER IX.
A Night at a White Settler's
CHAPTEE X.
Visit to a Chief
CHAPTEE XI.
Kaffir Magistrate. — Visit from a Settler. — How a Wife is punished
CHAPTER XII.
A Rhinoceros Fight
CHAPTEE XIII.
I live as a Kaffir — Bathing — Hair-dressing. — A Marriage. — Missionaries. — Witchcraft
CHAPTEE XIV.
Hyena Trapping--- Englishman carried off by a Leopard---A War Dance
CHAPTEE XV.
Hippopotamus Trapping. —Attack on a Python— Exclusive Christianity
CHAPTEE XVI.
Fight between a Bull-dog and a Leopard —African Griffins shooting
CHAPTEE XVII.
Hunting Expedition. Hunt for the wounded lion —An Ostrich Hunt. — Fighting Buffaloes — A Dance.

This book published in 1870 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.