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... rushed about , women holloaed , and shields were produced from every hut . I was so hot and angry -thinking that the missing boys had been murdered - that I was eager to begin by attacking straightaway . It looked as if about 400 ...
... rushed about , women holloaed , and shields were produced from every hut . I was so hot and angry -thinking that the missing boys had been murdered - that I was eager to begin by attacking straightaway . It looked as if about 400 ...
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... rushed and then held against the rest of the tribe . However , I was young and without much thought of anything THAT LUNATIC PYJALE SPEARS AN ELEPHANT AND MAKES TROUBLE FOR 44 WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER THE COMING OF PYJALÉ.
... rushed and then held against the rest of the tribe . However , I was young and without much thought of anything THAT LUNATIC PYJALE SPEARS AN ELEPHANT AND MAKES TROUBLE FOR 44 WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER THE COMING OF PYJALÉ.
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... rushed the whole regiment back to camp loaded with several tons of meat , many of them forgetting their spears in their hurry . But had I ventured to bullyrag them like this before the zebra incident I would have had a spear thrust for ...
... rushed the whole regiment back to camp loaded with several tons of meat , many of them forgetting their spears in their hurry . But had I ventured to bullyrag them like this before the zebra incident I would have had a spear thrust for ...
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... rushed the whole regiment back to camp loaded with several tons of meat , many of them forgetting their spears in their hurry . But had I ventured to bullyrag them like this before the zebra incident I would have had a spear thrust for ...
... rushed the whole regiment back to camp loaded with several tons of meat , many of them forgetting their spears in their hurry . But had I ventured to bullyrag them like this before the zebra incident I would have had a spear thrust for ...
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... rushed me , splashing and squelching right up to them . He was awfully good , and I began to learn a lot from him ... rushing back at us in the most alarming fashion , but Pyjalé would have none of it . Up to the big 50 WANDERINGS OF AN ...
... rushed me , splashing and squelching right up to them . He was awfully good , and I began to learn a lot from him ... rushing back at us in the most alarming fashion , but Pyjalé would have none of it . Up to the big 50 WANDERINGS OF AN ...
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Page 102 - In the far distance could be seen from some of the higher places a dark line. It was the edge of " Darkest Africa," the great primeval forest spreading for thousands of square miles. Out of that forest, and elsewhere, had come hundreds upon hundreds of elephants to feed upon the young green stuff. They stood around on that landscape as if made of wood and stuck there. Hunting there was too easy.
Page 20 - Complete and magnificent success attending the first raiding venture the whole country changed magically. The hitherto more or less peaceful looking trading camps gave place to huge armed Bomas surrounded by high thorn fences. Everyone — trader or native — went about armed to the teeth. Footsore or sick travellers from caravans disappeared entirely, or their remains were found by the roadside.
Page 98 - I thought the best thing I could do was to go to the United States camps ; so I lit out, and I got to the camps about 10 o'clock in the day.
Page 86 - ... of my research on the southern Sudan, I had read "The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter" (Country Life, 1923), in which its author, "Karamojo" Bell, talks of this site as the headquarters of what was known as L'Enclave de Lado, a huge region of the Sudan that at the turn of the century was privately leased to Leopold, king of the Belgians, for the duration of his life and for six months after his death: Close to our camp lived the Chef de Zone and each evening he entertained his subordinate Belgians...
Page 181 - And yet nearly all writers advocate the use of large bores as they "shock" the animal so much more than the small bores. They undoubtedly " shock " the firer more, but I fail to see the difference they are going to make to the recipient of the bullet. If you expect to produce upon him by the use of big bores the effect a handful of shot had upon the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, you will be disappointed.
Page 181 - Ib., and I constantly aligned it at anything and everything. I was always playing with it. Constant handling, constant aiming, constant Swedish drill with it, and then when it was required there it was ready and pointing true.
Page 48 - Here we were face to face with such a gathering of elephant as I had never dared to dream of even. The whole country was black with them, and what lay beyond them one could not see as the country was dead flat.
Page 92 - All the elephant for 100 miles inland were crowded into the swamps lining the Nile banks. Hunting was difficult only on account of the high grass. To surmount this one required either a dead elephant or a tripod to stand on. From such an eminence others could generally be shot.
Page 161 - Natives are permitted to hunt elephant in the above manner on payment of a small fee, in order that they may acquire the wherewithal to pay their taxes — a policy short-sighted indeed, when we remember Darwin's calculation that in 900 years two elephants become a million.
Page 173 - When they take to man-eating they do it thoroughly, as, for instance, the two or three old lions which terrorised the coolie camps at Tsavo during the construction of the Uganda Railway.