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In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country By: John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon (1870-1949) |
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Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by JOHN T. McCUTCHEON Cartoonist of the Chicago Tribune Illustrated with Photographs and Cartoons by the Author [Photograph: By courtesy of W.D. Boyce. One Morning's Bag] Indianapolis
The Bobbs Merrill Company
Publishers Copyright 1910
The Tribune Company, Chicago Copyright 1910
The Bobbs Merrill Company Press of
Braunworth & Co.
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N.Y.
TO THOSE ADVENTUROUS SOULS WHO
RESENT THE RESTRAINT OF THE BEATEN PATH
THESE OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMATEUR
ARE DEDICATED
PREFATORY NOTE
This collection of African stories has no pretentious purpose. It is
merely the record of a most delightful hunting trip into those
fascinating regions along the Equator, where one may still have
"thrilling adventures" and live in a story book atmosphere, where the
"roar of the lion" and the "crack of the rifle" are part of the
every day life, and where in a few months one may store up enough
material to keep the memory pleasantly occupied all the rest of a
lifetime. The stories are descriptive of a four and a half months' trip
in the big game country and pretend to no more serious purpose than
merely to relate the experiences of a self confessed amateur under such
conditions. JOHN T. McCUTCHEON August, 1910
CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE Page
The Preparation for Departure. Experiences with Willing
Friends and Advisers 1 CHAPTER TWO
The First Half of the Voyage. From Naples to the Red Sea,
with a Few Side Lights on Indian Ocean Travel 13 CHAPTER THREE
The Island of Mombasa, with the Jungles of Equatorial Africa
"Only a Few Blocks Away." A Story of the World's Champion
Man Eating Lions 28 CHAPTER FOUR
On the Edge of the Athi Plains, Face to Face with Herds of
Wild Game. Up in a Balloon at Nairobi 43 CHAPTER FIVE
Into the Heart of the Big Game Country with a Retinue of
More Than One Hundred Natives. A Safari and What It Is 65 CHAPTER SIX
A Lion Drive. With a Rhino in Range Some One Shouts
"Simba" and I Get My First Glimpse of a Wild Lion. Three
Shots and Out 82 CHAPTER SEVEN
On the Tana River, the Home of the Rhino. The Timid are
Frightened, the Dangerous Killed, and Others Photographed.
Moving Pictures of a Rhino Charge 105 CHAPTER EIGHT
Meeting Colonel Roosevelt in the Uttermost Outpost of
Semi Civilization. He Talks of Many Things, Hears that he has
Been Reported Dead, and Promptly Plans an Elephant Hunt 123 CHAPTER NINE
The Colonel Reads Macaulay's "Essays," Discourses on Many
Subjects with Great Frankness, Declines a Drink of Scotch
Whisky, and Kills Three Elephants 141 CHAPTER TEN
Elephant Hunting Not an Occasion for Lightsome Merrymaking.
Five Hundred Thousand Acres of Forest in Which the
Kenia Elephant Lives, Wanders and Brings Up His Children 164 CHAPTER ELEVEN
Nine Days Without Seeing an Elephant. The Roosevelt
Party Departs and We March for the Mountains on Our Big
Elephant Hunt. The Policeman of the Plains 184 CHAPTER TWELVE
"Twas the Day Before Christmas." Photographing a Charging
Elephant, Cornering a Wounded Elephant in a River Jungle
Growth. A Thrilling Charge. Hassan's Courage 201 CHAPTER THIRTEEN
In the Swamps of the Guas Ngishu. Beating for Lions We
Came Upon a Strange and Fascinating Wild Beast, Which
Became Attached to Our Party. The Little Wanderobo Dog 214 CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Who's Who in Jungleland. The Hartebeest and the Wildebeest,
the Amusing Giraffe and the Ubiquitous Zebra, the
Lovely Gazelle and the Gentle Impalla 233 CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Some Natural History in Which it is Revealed that a Sing Sing
Waterbuck is Not a Singing Topi, and that a Topi is Not
a Species of Head dress 251 CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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