African Adventure: Letters from Famous Big-game HuntersDenis D. Lyell |
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... keddah system . Keddah is , I believe , the Hindustani name for a stockade enclosure . The general procedure is as follows An elephant - catching party , termed a keddah party , comprises some 400 men , who go out during the winter ...
... keddah system . Keddah is , I believe , the Hindustani name for a stockade enclosure . The general procedure is as follows An elephant - catching party , termed a keddah party , comprises some 400 men , who go out during the winter ...
Page 234
... keddah or stockade fence is pushed on with all possible speed . A great deal of skill and knowledge is required in order to select the best site in which to put the keddah , for it must be so blinded by the natural forest growth that ...
... keddah or stockade fence is pushed on with all possible speed . A great deal of skill and knowledge is required in order to select the best site in which to put the keddah , for it must be so blinded by the natural forest growth that ...
Page 235
... keddah system I have just attempted to describe , but that of the cows dancing attendance on solitary bull elephants so persistently and continuously that he got no time to rest or sleep . After a few days of this an attempt was made to ...
... keddah system I have just attempted to describe , but that of the cows dancing attendance on solitary bull elephants so persistently and continuously that he got no time to rest or sleep . After a few days of this an attempt was made to ...
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Abel Chapman African elephant animals antelope Barns beast believe big game big-game blackpowder Brander-Dunbar buffalo bull bullet bush bushbuck C. H. STIGAND Capt cartridges charged cordite dangerous game East Africa Eland experience F. C. SELOUS feet fired Fort Jameson Giant Eland grass hartebeest head heard heart Heatherside herd hope horn hunter hunting inches Indian interesting letter ivory J. A. HUNTER keddah Kenya killed Koodoo leopard Loch Spynie luck magazine Mannlicher Martin Ryan mauled Mauser meat mentioned miles Millais Museum Nairobi natives natural history never Norman Smith North-Eastern Rhodesia Nyasaland photograph probably R. J. Cuninghame remarks rhino rifle round seen sent shooting shot shoulder sight Signed skin sleeping sickness small bore Somaliland species specimens spoor sport sportsmen Stigand Sudan Tarlton thick to-day trip trophies tusks weapon wild wonderful wounded writing wrote yards