. Big game shooting on the equator. Hunting -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- Description and travel. A BUFFALO DRIVE ICTURE to yourself a huge swamp, some ten miles long by three across, of reeds fifteen to eighteen feet high, and underfoot a boggy slush over one's ankles. It is early dawn, and the mosquitoes, that will soon be dispersed by a brazen sun, are biting and sucking for dear life, as it is not often they meet a confiding man to feed off in this part of the globe, and him white into the bargain. Dead silence prevailed everywhere except for the brass band provided by the mosquitoes pl
. Big game shooting on the equator. Hunting -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- Description and travel. A BUFFALO DRIVE ICTURE to yourself a huge swamp, some ten miles long by three across, of reeds fifteen to eighteen feet high, and underfoot a boggy slush over one's ankles. It is early dawn, and the mosquitoes, that will soon be dispersed by a brazen sun, are biting and sucking for dear life, as it is not often they meet a confiding man to feed off in this part of the globe, and him white into the bargain. Dead silence prevailed everywhere except for the brass band provided by the mosquitoes playing all round us. Some time previously we, my friend Wilson and I, had come to this very place in pursuit of game and had put up a herd of buffalo, but could not get in a shot owing to the impenetrable character of the undergrowth. Since that we had on frequent occasions tried again, but always with the same want of luck, so eventually we decided to build ourselves perches—a thatch of sticks and grass raised some eighteen feet high on stout uprights sunk in the ground, and firmly lashed with cross-pieces to withstand a consider- able shock. We had built them on the edge of 117. 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 Dickinson, F. A. (Francis Arthur), b. 1874. London, J. Lane; New York, J. Lane
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