CHAPTER I
THE PREPARATIO~ FOR DEPARTUR£. EXPERIENCES
'VITH 'VILLlNG FRIE~DS A...~D ADVISERS
EVER since I can renlember, almost, I have cherished
a modest ambition to hunt lions and elephants.
At an early age, or, to be more exact, at about that
age which finds nlost boys wondering whether they
would rather be Indian fighters or sailors, I ran
across a copy of Stanley's Through the Dark Con~
tinent. It was full of fascinating adventures. I
thrilled at the accotults which spoke in terms of easy
familiarity of "express" rifles and "elephant" guns,
and in nly vivid but nlisguided imagination, I pictured
an elephant gun as a sort of cannon-a huge,
unwieldy arquebus-that fired a ponderous shell.
The old woodcuts of daring hunters and charging
lions inspired me with unrest and longing-the
longing to bid the farnl farewell and start down tile
road for Africa. Africa 1 lVhat a pictllle it conjured
up in my fancyl Then, as even now, it symbolized
a world of adventurous
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE PAGE; The Preparation for Deparhue Experlen~eg with WUling; Friends and Advisers 1; CHAPTER TWO; The First Half ()f the Voynge From Naples to the Red Sea; with a Few Side-Lights on Indian Oce'lD Trayel 13; CHAPTER THREE; The Island of ~lomb,'Sa, with the Jungle~ of tquatorial Africa; "Only :l Few Blocks Away:' A Story of the World's Champion; Man-Eating Lions 28; CHAPTER FOUR; On the Edge of the Athi PlaiDS, Fare to Face with Herds of; Wild Game Up in B l3alloon at Nairobi 43; CHAPTER FIVE; Into the Heart of the Dig Game Country with f1 Retinue of; llol'e Than One Hundred Natives A Safari and -1lat It Is 65; CHAPTER SIX; A Lion Dri~e With n Rhino in
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