Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the ... North End of Lake Rudolph (Classic Reprint)

The experiences of other wandering hunters have always had so much interest for me, that I have ventured, perhaps presumptuously, to conclude that my own may possibly be thought worthy of perusal by those with similar savage tastes. Even then I should hardly have made bold to wield so unaccustomed a weapon as the pen, were it not that my elephant-hunting has been done in regions hitherto unvisited by the hunter. This circumstance, and the fact that my account is of quite recent adventures, describing faithfully, to the best of my ability, the country and game as they actually are to-day an important quality in the value of such matter may, I hope, tend to justify my present more daring enterprise. For, although I have hunted in South Africa while yet the high veldt was black with wildebeeste and the bush veldt still teemed with wild beasts, is not AH unters Wanderings to oo no farther back in the classics of big game too unapproachably fascinating as a latest record of elephant-hunting there to admit of rivals in that field And for descriptions of a more recent search for sport in the southern portion of the continent, have we not the charming volume of Mr. J. G.
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