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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treat to the man who loves an outdoor life. This body of water is said by the most recent surveys to be larger than Lake Superior. Hippopotami and rhinoceri are seen among the papyrus reeds; lions and leopards are in the woods; and the red colobus monkey (the rarest in the world) is found in the trees. At Bukoba there is a German commander and several German officers, and at Mwanza, the most southerly port, there is a fine set of German officers. Good hunting is always the watchword in this part of Africa. There is a herd of elephants on the island of Ukerewe, — Ukerewe was the original name of Victoria Nyanza. Returning to Entebbe, one can proceed by rickshaw to Lake Albert Nyanza, about two hundred miles distant. All the way through this Uganda country one falls in with chimpanzees, colobus monkeys, zebras, buffaloes, and every kind of African antelope. There are wild asses in Uganda, and the three-horned and five-horned giraffes. Sir Harry Johnston claims that there are okapi in the West of
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In the Country of Big Game 129 the Protectorate. Of course lions, leopards, hyenas and jackals are in every bush and swamp and wood. The rigid preservation of so large a game reserve in the East African Protectorate has largely increased the number and decreased the timidity of the reed-bucks, zebras, giraffes, ostriches, antelopes and larger animals, who feed almost as fearlessly as tame cattle, close up to the railway tracks. Naturally the lions, leopards, hyenas and jackals, who prey upon them, gather in the same district and grow bold also. Game is frequently killed by the locomotives, and the station masters, section hands,and switch men take chances of sudden death from accidents unusual in normal railroad employment. When one turns up the virgin soil of Africa one disturbs more angry and pugnacious insects and reptiles than one ever imagined could exist. Ants that can grip the flesh like tiny forceps, bees and hornets like those that drove out the Anakim before Moses, are stirred into per

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