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Northern Kruger Nyala Bull
Nyala Bull Erecting its Back Hair in Display to Another Bull
Some of these old specimens are still on show but in a terrible condition in the Natural
History Museum, and supposedly there are others of his old specimens kept by the museum.
But on asking the curators at the British Museum in 2011, nobody had heard about Selous and
the animals he had collected in the late 1800s for the museum. Selous was eventually killed by
a sniper bullet in the East Africa First World War between the Germans and English. Upon
hearing of his death, the German commanding officer sent a letter to his family out of respect
for him. He was buried on the banks of the Rufiji River where also Major Philip Jacobus
Pretorius was involved in the sinking of the German battleship Konigsberg in the Rufiji Delta.
The property and farms of the Swazis was largely left untouched by the British colonialists
because the King of Swaziland made representation to the British government to be a British
protectorate, as Botswana was also. Thus, farms in Swaziland were used at the discretion of
the King. Among the Amatonga, spread over South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, they
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