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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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nd outside all such risksas fever and the like), several instances of tangible dangerfrom wild beasts, as hereinbefore recorded. II. Danger What degree of danger is there encountered inAfrican hunting? Many who have not had practicalexperience, and whose knowledge is confined to reading,are apt to exaggerate it. On the other hand, thosewho know, perhaps minimise the contingent risks partlythrough a fear that they may be suspected of extollingtheir own exploits or personal courage. Then there isthat third section—those who do not survive to tell thetale. And one cannot spend much time in Africa with-out being surprised at the number of accidents—many of them fatal accidents—that are always occurring,and of w^hich no word reaches home. The casualwanderer, the adventurous spirits of the hinterland,these meet sudden deaths—or die of wounds or gangrene—and no record remains. My own impression tends to the belief that there is, ) J ) J > > 5 ■> J > > J , , 1 ■»
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o c cc c FASCICULA 279 in almost every ease, an appreciable degree of dangerin taking on either elephant, rhino, buffalo or lion.Occasionally, of course, a soft job may be enjoyed;but such, with these four, cannot be relied upon. Soabsolutely dominant, moreover, at the crucial moment,is the hunter—or hunting instinct; so concentratedmust thought and action be on success alone, that everyother idea is eliminated. There is no time to considerthose. Therefore when all is over, and the beast liesdead before you, ones mind, occupied with successachieved, is apt to ignore those preceding moments ofcrucial, vital import that are past, and which, even at thetime, received no thought. For all that, those momentsmay have been critical, dangerous to the last degree.The rifle has triumphed, but the event might well haveresulted otherwise—one turn of ill-luck, a seconds delayor loss of nerve, an ill-judged movement or falsemanoeuvre, and the case might have been reversed. Some of those who hav

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