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
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er (8,000 ft.), renders breathingoppressive to man and beast alike. In gloomy recesses,shut out for ever from the sun, grow ferns much as onesees at home—bracken and blechnum, polypody, parsley-fern and others; besides brambles, ramps, primroses,thistles and stiuo-ino-uettles. There are moister dells where cedars and forest-treesgive place to dense growth of bamboos of such giantdimensions that even their summits pass beyond our view,towering up probably eighty feet or more. The greytree-moss, old-mans beard, hangs in pendent festoons,while an incessant siss-siss-siss of infinite insects and the ^ Though they are called cedars, and their wood is reddish and ofthe same sweet resinous smell as cedar, yet I believe these big treesreally belong to the Juniper family. 192 ON SAFARI croaking of arboreal reptiles runs on like a lullaby.Brilliant butterflies flit in sunny glades, but in theforest there is little other sign of life. We saw nogame therein, save a chance bushbuck and the spoor
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TRUMPETER HOKNBILL. of very large pig. These, our men assured us, carried notusks. Of the bongo we saw not a sign. Although unseen, we were, liowever, conscious, by arecurrent ringing clamour, that there existed livingcreatures high above—practically in another world.These strident outcries we at first attributed to eagles,perhaps correctly. But presently we realised that otherfeathered neighbours, hardly inferior in size, dwelt over- THE MAU FOKEST 193 head. These were huge black hornbills. Merely fleet-ing and momentary were the glimpses we could get w^itha spyglass; but, such as these were (and the idea wasconfirmed by those clarion notes), we concluded thatthese w^ere the great trumpeter hornbill (Bycanistes

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