ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIER BY WILLIAM HARVEY BROWN

ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIER: THE ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMERICAN IN MASONALAND AND MATABELELAND BY WILLIAM HARVEY BROWN. HARDCOVER,  1899 1ST EDITION, 430 PAGES, 31 FULL PAGE BLACK AND WHITE PLATES, 2 COLOUR FOLDOUT MAPS, UNTRIMMED PAGES ALL ROUND AS ISSUED. NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

"...path we saw three sable antelopes grazing in a meadow. They ran away when they smelled us. Then we came through the bush to this stream of water, where Umtanitchani took a drink with his hands and I lay down on my belly and took a drink; then Umtanitchani took another drink, after which we both peeled bark off some umsassa bushes to make a rope. Then we saw you come down the opposite bank, and that is all! " This finished, the spokesman of the second party similarly narrates all his experiences since arising in the morning, and the greeting is ended."

According to Czech (Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999 page 39: "Brown set out to Portuguese Angola to collect specimens for the United States National Museum, but ended up fighting in the Matabele and Mashona uprisings. While he did bag a hippopotamus on the Coanza River in Angola, most of his sport adventures take place in Rhodesia, hunting roan, impala eland, sable and kudu among other game near the gold files in Mashonaland. Brown also related interesting episodes hunting rhino, buffalo and lion near the Angwa River."