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Title: On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929
Subjects: Hunting -- Africa, British East Birds -- Africa, British East Africa, British East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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roundNakurus shore—the whale-billed stork (Baloeniceps)and the great wattled crane (Grus ccirunculata), asjDccies I had met with in South Africa; but neitherbird has yet been proved to occur here in Ecjuatoria. Two flamingoes that I killed with the rifle were ofthe European species (Fhcerdcojyterus roseus), but wesaw others that were red all over (Ph. minor). Many hippo lay in the shallows off-shore; one, animmense bull with pink cheeks and neck, showedsplendid curved ivory as he opened a cavernous mouth to yawn. He oflered a good target, and W put in a bullet that told well. The hippo disappeared, and wesaw him no more, though we waited all day (watchingthe birds also) and sent down boys next morning.Neither of us fired at hippo again. That evening we marched into Nakuru and encampedalongside the railway. There is a Dak bungalow at thestation, and, without being Sybarites, we enjoyed anexcellent dinner and a bottle of Pontet Canet—a gratefulchange from the rough fare of the veld.
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AFRICAN JABIRU, OR SADDLE-BILL. CHAPTER IV A LION-DRIVE ON LAKE NAKURU Lions were not specially included in our programmeor our ambitions when we first landed in British EastAfrica; for much time expended in vain and manyuncomfortable hours endured during my previous expe-dition (in South Africa) in the efiort to bag a lion haddriven home the conclusion that to secure the king ofbeasts was beyond my powers. But dis aliter visum.Lions, it may here be remarked, are still sufficientlynumerous in British East Africa, especially in thoseregions where antelopes, zebra and other game sogreatly abound, such as the Athi Plains and parts ofthe great Rift Valley. During our three monthssojourn in East Africa in 1904 we had several campsat which we heard lions calling almost every night, yetnever, that year, did we personally see one alive, excepton the single occasion which I here propose to relate. InSouth Africa I enjoyed one glimpse of a lion, and therough sketch made in my note-book of that

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