Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o more by lions. Our tent was 200 feet from the zereba where we kept the donkeys; and one night we had kindled a fire at the door and set two men to watch it. They fell asleep; the fire went out. At about two o clock in the morning we heard a dreadful uproar, but we did not dare to leave our tent in the darkness as the whole plain was swarming with hyenas, leopards and lions. In the morning, however, we found that two of our best donkeys had been dragged out of the enclosure and had been left in the jungle half-eaten by lions. As we advanced farther from the settlements the lions became more bold, and we heard from the natives a continual story of their atrocities. An Arab merchant ahead of us had two of his donkeys devoured, and when we had crossed the plain and reached the Lumi River we were met at the fords of the river by a delegation of young Wataveta hunters. They told us a terrific tale of how they had hunted a man-eating lion and how one of their number, named Martini, eighteen years old, the son
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Photograph by Pfter Dutkewieh, copyright, IMV, by Underwood ic Inderwood, N. V.WATAVETA WARRIORS READY FOR A LION HUNT. Across the Serengeti Plain 167 of their chief, MeHkanoi, had stood in front of the great beast with his spear; and how when the lion had jumped upon him he thrust his spear clean through its heart and, leaping aside like lightning, fell under his ox hide shield to save himself from the cruel claws. The fierce beast rolled on the ground in agony and a second warrior came forward to stab it to death, but it reached out its awful paw and grasping the hunter disemboweled him. Martini, however, was safe, and he was the pride and joy of the tribe. So, when we had rested at the Lumi River, we prepared for a visit among the agricultural Masai or Wakwafi tribe who are called the Wataveta.

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