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Title: 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, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph
Identifier: elephanthuntingi00neum (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Neumann, Arthur H
Subjects: Elephant hunting; Hunting
Publisher: London : R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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CAMPING AT EL BOGOI 405 appointing. Many friends cease to write when you are far from regular reach of post ; others write perfunctorily, as an irksome duty, and probably tell you about the weather ; some even say disagreeable things, not taking the trouble to think how un- pleasant it will be to read such productions in the loneliness of the remote African wilderness. All this has a depressing effect on a sensitive traveller, with the result that the reaction, after eager expectation, almost makes him wish he had not read these disillusioning epistles. Newspapers are, at all events, interesting ; there is nothing personal about them, though they are cold comfort to the
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Fig. a. Baited Trap for Hyena or Leopard. solitary exile. But there are other letters which it really does him good to read ; some have thought of the wanderer, and written so kindly, and with such evidently genuine good feeling, as to bring a grateful glow to his heart. But such are few and far between. From the rest he turns with relief, to listen once more to the familiar tongues of the never ill-natured trees, to study the rare books, and wish himself better qualified to profit by the sermons of the stones. Fig. A represents the best method I know of for setting a gun for a hyena or leopard. This trap is baited with a piece of sinewy meat, tied firmly over the muzzle of the gun (I have used a Snider carbine for the purpose), which should all but, though not quite, pierce the centre of the bait. It is best to

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