In Africa - Hunting Adventures In Big Game Country (1910)

IN AFRICA- Hunting Adventures in the Big G-ame Country BY JOHN T. McCUTCHEON. Originally published in 1910. PREFATORY NOTE This collection of African stories has no pretentious purpose. It is merely the record of a most delightful hunt ing 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 1910. Contents include: CHAPTER ONE PAGH 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 Worlds Cham pion Man-Eating Lions 8 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 . 193 CHAPTER NINE The Colonel Reads Macaulays Essays, Discourses on Many Subjects with Great Frankness, Declines a Drink of Scotch Whisky, and Kills Three Elephants 141 CONTENTS Continued CHAPTER TEN PAUB Elephant Hunting Not an Occasion for LightHnmo Mtrrymafc ing. Five Hundred Thousand Aorca of Vorent in Which tbfl Kenia Elephant Lives, Wanders and Brings Up Hin Children fit CHAPTER ELEVEN Nine Days Without Seeing an Elephant The KooMcvelt Party Departs and We March for the Mountains on Our MK Elephant Hunt. The Policeman of the Plains , IHl CHAPTER TWELVE Twas the Day Before Christmas. Photographing a Chfirg ing Elephant, Cornering a Wounded Elephant in a River Jun ta Growth. A Thrilling Charge. Hassans Courage , . .901 CHAPTER THIRTEEN In the Swamps of the Guas Ngishu. Beating for Liotw Ws Came Upon a Strange and Fascinating Wild Bciwt, Which Became Attached to Our Party. The Little Wanderotw Dug 311 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Whos Who in Jungleland. The Hartebeost and the Wifcte beest, the Amusing Giraffe and tho Ubiquitouu Zcbr, the Lovely Gazelle and the Gentle Impalla . , 9 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Some Natural History in Which it is Revealed that Sing-Sing Waterbuck is Not a Singing Topi, and that a Topi U Not a Species of Head-dress ..... t g i CHAPTER SIXTEEN In the Tall Grass of the Mount Elgon Country A Narrow Escape from a Long-Horned Rhino. A Thanksgiving Dlnnar and a Visit to a Native Village .,,, g CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Up and Down the Mountain Side from the Ketroh Vitla to the Great Cave of Bats. A Dramatic Episode with the Find ing of a Black Baby as a Climax 901 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Etectoc Lights, Motor-Cars and Fifteen Varieties of Wtid Game...