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The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

Chapter 21: INDEX
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The author recounts extensive African hunting and travel experiences, concentrating on techniques and practical advice for pursuing large elephants and other big game. The narrative blends detailed descriptions of native traps and customs, weaponry and shot placement, and the geography and hardships of expeditions across varied regions. Episodes include travel through swamps, forests and enclaves, encounters with buffalo, lions, hippo and smaller game, and reflections on interactions with local communities and administrations. Practical chapters on rifles, fieldcraft and animal behavior are interwoven with travelogue and observational natural history.

INDEX

  • Abyssinian slave raids, 79
  • Anatomy of elephant, 35
  • Antelope-hunting, 68
  • Belgian domestic arrangements, 88
  • Blood-brotherhood, ceremony of, 56
  • Body shot, 8
  • Boyd-Alexander, visit to Sudan chief, 140
  • Brain shot, advantages of, 6
  • disadvantages of, 7
  • Buba Gida, interview with, 133
  • autocratic government by, 136
  • Buffalo, sinister reputation, 170
  • difference in colour, 171
  • Bukora, trouble at, 44
  • Canoes, Canadian “freight type,” 150
  • Elephant cemeteries, 73
  • Fighting, forms of, among natives, 62
  • Foot-travelling, remarkable feat of, 59
  • Government of native races, new idea of, in Sudan, 186
  • Habashi methods of punishment, 67
  • Harmatan, 165
  • Hearing distances, getting within, 2
  • Honey-guides, dealing with plague of, 18
  • mead, drinking, 17
  • Humidity of atmosphere, effect on sound-carrying, 50
  • Imitative ways of natives, 54
  • Ivory trading at Karamojo, 32
  • raiders, 21
  • Karamojans, dealing with, 36
  • incitement to murder amongst, 37
  • Killing elephants, chances of success in, 4
  • most humane method of, 6
  • Lado, evacuation of, by Belgians, 98
  • Lakkas, absence of authority amongst, 141
  • Lion-hunting by novices, 176
  • Lions, African, courage of, 175
  • encounters with game, 178
  • high mortality amongst hunters of, 177
  • Marathon racing, 68
  • Medicine men, assistance to hunters, 13
  • power of, 12
  • Mumias, town of, 21
  • Murua Akipi country, 66
  • Native ignorance of firearms, 41
  • Ras Tasama, rule of, 79
  • Rifles, most suitable types of, 6
  • selection of, for big-game hunting, 179
  • Scorpion sting, effect of, 48
  • Smuggling in Liberia, 109
  • Snaring, art of, 33
  • Storks, marabou, 162
  • Swamp region, hunting in, 86
  • Trap, setting of, 2
  • Turkwell River, 24
  • Tusks, method of removal, 32
  • Wa Boni tribe, 16
  • Wife, African idea of, 136
  • Witchcraft, African, 12

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