On safari - big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life (1908) (14747838151)

Identifier: onsafaribiggameh00chaprich (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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eived aletter from Major C. S. Cumberland, who was then atBaringo, that he was disappointed with that district.He wrote as follows:— Baringo, March 29 (1904).This is sujDposed to be a good game-country, but I haveseen very little, and what there is, having been muchhunted, is very wild. It will give you an idea of whatthis country is like this year to say that I have nothalted in any one of my camps for more than one day.In my opinion the beasts have shifted owing to thedrouoht. Under the impression that if March were unfavour-able, August might prove to be the reverse, we reachedBaringo in the latter month. On arrival, Mr. Archertold us that five or six weeks earlier, at the end of therains, game had been extremely abundant a few marchesto the northward. Thus an entry in his diary on July11 mentions seeino- during- the mornino-, while ridino; AFTER ORYX AND ELAND—BARINGO 75 soutliwards towards the Miigitani River, two herds of50 and 80 oryx respectively, 11 giraffes and 2 elands;
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SKETCH-MAr OF BAIIINGO. while the same evenino- he rode within sio-ht of some300 elands, 100 oryx, 32 girafies and 3 rhino, besides 7Q ON SAFAEI the ordinary game. Our own experiences, five weekslater, were as follows. To begin with, I fell in with one of those unpleasantadventures that are incidental to African travel. Asrelated in the last chapter, I had left my brother tocontinue his march northwards towards the MugitaniPiiver while 1 made a back-cast of thirty miles to Njempsafter elephant. Returning thence, on the evening of thefourth day I had reached the neighbourhood of the sj^ot where, by arrangement, I expected to find W encamped, when one of those violent thunderstormscharacteristic of the equator suddenly burst. Beingunable, in elemental cataclysm, amidst roaring winds,thunder and hissing rain, either to find the river or toget response to our signal-shots, I ordered camp to bepitched exactly where I stood. Then a new difiicultyarose. The heavily-laden safari, struggling a