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Hearing the quick double shot, my people came running to the spot, accompanied by a number of the native porters, and were rejoiced to find a good supply of meat; the antelope weighed about five hundred pounds, and was sufficient to afford a good dinner for the whole party. The Mehedehet is about 13 hands high, with rough, brown hair like the Samber deer of India.
Secretary Pepys gave a great library to Magdalen College at Cambridge: but among the folios peeped out little black-letter ballads and 'penny merriments, penny witticisms, penny compliments, and penny godlinesses. 'Mr. Robert Samber, says Oldys, 'must need turn virtuoso too, and have his collection: which was of all the printed tobacco-papers he could anywhere light on.
Next to the 'Rifle' in the order of description comes the 'Hound. The 'elk' is his acknowledged game, and an account of this animal's size and strength will prove the necessity of a superior breed of hound. The 'elk' is a Ceylon blunder and a misnomer. The animal thus called is a 'samber deer, well known in India as the largest of all Asiatic deer.
Samber, printed for J. Pote, was advertised, Mr. Austin Dobson tells me, in the Monthly Chronicle, March, 1729."
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