Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa (African hunting reprint series) by Neumann, Arthur H
Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-hunting Under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains
by Arthur H. Neumann
Hardcover, ISBN 9780869202463
Publisher: Books of Zimbabwe, 1982
Fascimile reprint of the 1898 edition with a new frontispiece, and introduction by Professor James A. Casada.
455 pages, frontispiece, many illustrations, folding map, brown paper-covered boards
Near Fine. The Book is in a Mint Condition and covered in a fresh Cellophane cover.
From inside the book:
"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. ...However, for those amiable sympathisers to whom the descriptions of how I killed elephants can have no interest, my account of how one of these animals very nearly killed me may afford pleasure; and if that should be tempered by disappointment because it was not altogether successful, they may hope that vengeance may yet be consummated. Akin to the heathenish propensity of my early youth above alluded to, was an attempt I remember to have made to get out of sight of houses in a secluded part of a common and fancy myself in an uninhabited country; and among the prophecies uttered at a later period by observant Kafirs, who noticed the development of my unquenchable thirst for prying further and further into remote wastes, was one to the effect that I should end by dying in a far wilderness, inhabited only by wild beasts, where no smoke could be seen the horizon round."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I FIRST EXPEDITION FROM MOMBASA
CHAPTER II ON THE JAMBENI RANGE
CHAPTER III CAMPING AT MOUNT KENIA
CHAPTER IV THE NDOROBO COUNTRY
CHAPTER V NDOROBO ELEPHANT-HUNTING
CHAPTER VI RETURN TO MOMBASA
CHAPTER VII SECOND EXPEDITION
CHAPTER VIII EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOGOI
CHAPTER IX EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOGOI (continued)
CHAPTER X EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOGOI (continued)
CHAPTER XI FROM EL BOGOI TO LAKE RUDOLPH
CHAPTER XII LAKE RUDOLPH
CHAPTER XIII A SOJOURN AT RESHIAT AND KERE"
CHAPTER XIV RETURN TO LAKE RUDOLPH
CHAPTER XV RETURN TO LAKE RUDOLPH (continued)
CHAPTER XVI EN ROUTE FOR EL BOGOI
CHAPTER XVII CAMPING AT EL BOGOI
CHAPTER XVIII EL BOGOI TO MOMBASA
