Note 43 — Chapter IX · The “Home-going” of Three Brothers.
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Strange to say, ere one brief year had elapsed, his brother Roualeyn’s noble hunting-trophies were conveyed to London, there to be likewise sold by auction at a strangely ill-attended sale. Thus were scattered to the winds the treasures of two of the most successful hunters of dangerous wild beasts. Almost all Roualeyn’s trophies were purchased by Barnum, and, sad to say, were burnt in his great fire.