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History Today: Destroyers and preservers: big game in the Victorian empire: continuing our history and the environment series, Harriet Ritvo looks at the role of big-game hunting in spreading awareness of the need for conservation. - English
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China and Japan, by James D. Johnston, added notes - English
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Added notes for China and Japan, desribing the cruise of the U. S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan in 1857-60, by Lieutenant James D. Johnston, U.S.N.

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Gordon Parker Cummings [en] - English
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Homepage Gordon Parker Cummings

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ROUALEYN GEORGE GORDON-CUMMING - English
URL: http://77.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GO/GORDON_CUMMING_ROUALEYN_GEORGE.htm

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Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the lion hunter, was horn on the i5th of March 1820. He was the second son of Sir William G. Gordon-Cumming, 2nd baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown, Elginshire. From his early years he was distinguished by his passion, for sport. He was educated at Eton, and at eighteen joined the East India Co.s service as a cornet in the Madras Light Cavalry. The climate of India not suiting him, after two years experience he retired from the service and returned to Scotland.

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