With Flashlight and Rifle, Vol. 2: A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wildlife in Equatorial East-Africa (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Carl Georg Schillings

9780260894328: With Flashlight and Rifle, Vol. 2: A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wildlife in Equatorial East-Africa (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 026089432X ISBN 13: 9780260894328

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Excerpt from With Flashlight and Rifle, Vol. 2: A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wildlife in Equatorial East-Africa

HE narrative just given I have reproduced from the pages Of Der Wez'a'mafm (tfie Sportsman) just as I wrote it at the time. I thought it better not to alter it in any way, as the events were still fresh in my mind when I set to work at it. In the course of the following years other travellers had Opportunities Of showing similar prowess as sportsmen on the Kikuyu tableland. In one case I was excelled in the number of lions killed in a single day. All these were cases of first - rate Austrian and English sportsmen with excellent weapons at their disposal. Had I possessed similar rifles instead of the Obsolete single-barrelled one of unsatisfactory make I could have made a bigger bag. Under such difficult conditions, handicapped by so many unfavourable circumstances, weakened by fever, and with poor weapons, I have reason, I think, to be satisfied with what I did. Such a success, as I have already said, never came my way again. I had a very exciting experience with an Old maned lion in the autumn of 1899, on the right bank of the.

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