With flashlight and rifle Volume 1; a record of hunting adventures and of studies in wild life in equatorial East Africa - Tapa blanda
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...by the sight of a fire. I myself had in mind a case of this kind. A number of large elephants had made for a camp-fire, and for nearly a quarter of an hour trampled over it, and over everything they found near it belonging to the black hunters. The six men who were encamped beside it found safety in flight. Naturally we spent some minutes of keen anxiety as the elephants passed--anxiety due in large measure to the strange circumstance that the elephants should have chosen a route so near our camp. But the danger passed, and the silent, illimitable velt lay steeped in the moonlight. I took the first hours of the watch, and then, after my men had rested, took my turn of sleep. When I woke up suddenly at dawn, I found the camp-fire almost extinguished and the watch snoring; it was their snoring that had awakened me. So completely do the results of extreme physical exertion prevail over all thought or fear of wild animals! Now came a very difficult and wearying seven-hours' march over broken ground full of holes made by rodents, to our distant camp, in scorching sunlight. I am doubtful whether we should ever have reached it but for our good fortune in coming upon some water after long digging in a dried-up river-bed. It is not easy to give an idea of the effect such experiences have upon the men who live through them. Arrived safely in camp, I despatched some men next day to bring back the teeth of both the cow elephants last killed. The larger of the two had only one tusk, which weighed 28 Ib.--a somewhat considerable weight for a cow--and which was already far gone through decay. The elephant would soon have lost this tusk also. My men found in the animal two iron bullets such as natives use, one of which was embedded in the outer coating of its stomach--an i...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...by the sight of a fire. I myself had in mind a case of this kind. A number of large elephants had made for a camp-fire, and for nearly a quarter of an hour trampled over it, and over everything they found near it belonging to the black hunters. The six men who were encamped beside it found safety in flight. Naturally we spent some minutes of keen anxiety as the elephants passed--anxiety due in large measure to the strange circumstance that the elephants should have chosen a route so near our camp. But the danger passed, and the silent, illimitable velt lay steeped in the moonlight. I took the first hours of the watch, and then, after my men had rested, took my turn of sleep. When I woke up suddenly at dawn, I found the camp-fire almost extinguished and the watch snoring; it was their snoring that had awakened me. So completely do the results of extreme physical exertion prevail over all thought or fear of wild animals! Now came a very difficult and wearying seven-hours' march over broken ground full of holes made by rodents, to our distant camp, in scorching sunlight. I am doubtful whether we should ever have reached it but for our good fortune in coming upon some water after long digging in a dried-up river-bed. It is not easy to give an idea of the effect such experiences have upon the men who live through them. Arrived safely in camp, I despatched some men next day to bring back the teeth of both the cow elephants last killed. The larger of the two had only one tusk, which weighed 28 Ib.--a somewhat considerable weight for a cow--and which was already far gone through decay. The elephant would soon have lost this tusk also. My men found in the animal two iron bullets such as natives use, one of which was embedded in the outer coating of its stomach--an i...
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