Moon Over Eden

horse looked as if he had ridden it hard.

The leopards are still there. Let me go and find a gun, Dominica. I will shoot them and they will never worry you again.”

splay-footed buffalo hitched on to wooden ploughs floundering up to their knees

could shoot wild elephants, elk, buffalo, bear and leopards, fish,

started the day with the click-clack of axes, the crash of falling trees and the noise of saws and hammers. Then everything had to be carted away and burnt.
It was not a question of merely felling the trees but of digging out every root before the land was ready for planting.

bought five hundred and sixty acres of land at one pound an acre and found that he had to clear away the jungle from it.