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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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FLAMINGOES FLIGHTIXG. strengthens, I see they are pelicans asleep on a shallow,and there is a line of flamingoes beyond. Presently arushing of water sets me alert, and a hippo cow swimsrapidly past not twenty yards away, with her totoeasily keeping pace. I do not shoot, and they disappearround the point quite unconscious of the danger theyhave just incurred. A family party of five—one hugebull, with two cows and two totos—lie basking near a lowrocky islet 200 yards out. For two hours I watchedthem, but they came no nearer. Then shots resoundfrom beyond the point, so we arise, stretch, and go on to find A watching a hippo bull apparently in the throes of its death-flurry. While encamped here, on the Karriendoos, one of
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ELMENTEITA IN FEBRUARY 149 our porters, a Nyuniwezi named Ibrahim, died rathersuddenly. The apparent cause was inflammation of thethroat, rendering him speechless, nor had we either theknowledge or the means to alleviate it. The first in-timation was brouoiit us durino- the afternoon : we triedsuch simple remedies as we had, but at seven oclock,just as we were sitting down to dinner, w^ord was sentin that the poor fellow w-as dead. He was buried at dawn outside the camp, the gravebeing five feet deep and the body, wa^apt in his blanket,placed sidew^ays in a narrow^er trench dug some eighteeninches deeper. This the men covered with piles of thornsand brushwood before filling in the earth, the wdiolebeing finally heaped over with stones. That nighthyenas and jackals kept up an unearthly concert aUaround the camp, but the grave remained intact in the mornmo-. A few days later, having in the meantime beenobliged, by an attack of fever, as below mentioned, toabandon our intended expedition

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