. 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. Elephant hunting; Hunting. 13° ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA Sharpe (who arranged my collection for me) found one quite new species. We had no difficulties with the natives, and entered into friendly relations by " eating blood " with most of the tribes we passed through—indeed I and my African brothers form quite a good-sized family altogether, and Dr. Kolb, I think,
. 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. Elephant hunting; Hunting. 13° ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA Sharpe (who arranged my collection for me) found one quite new species. We had no difficulties with the natives, and entered into friendly relations by " eating blood " with most of the tribes we passed through—indeed I and my African brothers form quite a good-sized family altogether, and Dr. Kolb, I think, could say the same. But one night things looked decidedly Dr. Kolb making Blood-Brotherhood with Wakwavi of Katheri. Just as we were going to sleep, an old " brother " of ours came into camp and warned us that he had discovered that there was a plot to attack us during the night ; and no sooner had we heard this rather disturbing news than an arrow, freshly smeared with poison, was shot into our camp. Immediately after—extra sentries having been posted and precautions taken —an unfortunate porter, who had foolishly gone outside with- out telling any one, was shot by one of the guards and died in half an hour. We despatched the ancient relative, who had. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Neumann, Arthur H. London : R. Ward, limited
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