In Africa

In Africa, by John T. McCutcheon

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Title: In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
Author: John T. McCutcheon

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IN AFRICA
Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
by
JOHN T. McCUTCHEON
Cartoonist of the Chicago Tribune
Illustrated with Photographs and Cartoons by the Author

[Photograph: By courtesy of W.D. Boyce. One Morning's Bag]

Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers
Copyright 1910 The Tribune Company, Chicago
Copyright 1910 The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N.Y.

TO THOSE ADVENTUROUS SOULS WHO RESENT THE RESTRAINT OF THE BEATEN PATH THESE OBSERVATIONS OF AN AMATEUR ARE DEDICATED

PREFATORY NOTE
This collection of African stories has no pretentious purpose. It is merely the record of a most delightful hunting trip into those fascinating regions along the Equator, where one may still have "thrilling adventures" and live in a story-book atmosphere, where the "roar of the lion" and the "crack of the rifle" are part of the every-day life, and where in a few months one may store up enough material to keep the memory pleasantly occupied all the rest of a lifetime. The stories are descriptive of a four-and-a-half months' trip in the big game country and pretend to no more serious purpose than merely to relate the experiences of a self-confessed amateur under such conditions.
JOHN T. McCUTCHEON
August, 1910

CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Page The Preparation for Departure. Experiences with Willing Friends and Advisers 1
CHAPTER TWO
The First Half of the Voyage. From Naples to the Red Sea, with a Few Side-Lights on Indian Ocean Travel 13
CHAPTER THREE
The Island of Mombasa, with the Jungles of Equatorial Africa "Only a Few Blocks Away." A Story of the World's Champion Man-Eating Lions 28
CHAPTER FOUR
On the Edge of the Athi Plains, Face to Face with Herds of Wild Game. Up in a Balloon at Nairobi 43
CHAPTER FIVE
Into the Heart of the Big Game Country with a Retinue of More Than One Hundred Natives. A Safari and What It Is 65
CHAPTER SIX
A Lion Drive. With a Rhino in Range Some One Shouts "Simba" and I Get My First Glimpse of a Wild Lion. Three Shots and Out 82
CHAPTER SEVEN
On the Tana River, the Home of the Rhino. The Timid are Frightened, the Dangerous Killed, and Others Photographed. Moving Pictures of a Rhino Charge 105
CHAPTER EIGHT
Meeting Colonel Roosevelt in the Uttermost Outpost of Semi-Civilization. He Talks of Many Things, Hears that he has Been Reported Dead, and Promptly Plans an Elephant Hunt 123
CHAPTER NINE
The Colonel Reads Macaulay's "Essays," Discourses on Many Subjects with Great Frankness, Declines a Drink of Scotch Whisky, and Kills Three Elephants 141
CHAPTER TEN
Elephant Hunting Not an Occasion for Lightsome Merrymaking. Five Hundred Thousand Acres of Forest in Which the Kenia Elephant Lives, Wanders and Brings Up His Children 164
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Nine Days Without Seeing an Elephant. The Roosevelt Party Departs and We March for the Mountains on Our Big Elephant Hunt. The Policeman of the Plains 184
CHAPTER TWELVE
"Twas the Day Before Christmas." Photographing a Charging Elephant, Cornering a Wounded Elephant in a River Jungle Growth. A Thrilling Charge. Hassan's Courage 201
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
In the Swamps of the Guas Ngishu. Beating for Lions We Came Upon a Strange and Fascinating Wild Beast, Which Became Attached to Our Party. The Little Wanderobo Dog 214
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Who's Who in Jungleland. The Hartebeest and the Wildebeest, the Amusing Giraffe and the Ubiquitous Zebra, the Lovely Gazelle and the Gentle Impalla 233
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Some Natural History in Which it is Revealed that a Sing-Sing Waterbuck is Not a Singing Topi, and that a Topi is Not a Species of Head-dress 251
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
In the Tall Grass of the Mount Elgon Country. A Narrow Escape from a Long-Horned Rhino. A Thanksgiving Dinner and a Visit to a Native Village 269
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Up and Down the Mountain Side from the Ketosh Village to the Great Cave of Bats. A Dramatic Episode with the Finding of a Black Baby as a Climax 291
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Electric Lights, Motor-Cars and Fifteen Varieties of Wild Game. Chasing Lions Across the Country in a Carriage 313
CHAPTER NINETEEN
The Last Word in Lion Hunting. Methods of Trailing, Ensnaring and Otherwise Outwitting the King of Beasts. A
Chapter of
Adventures 325
CHAPTER TWENTY
Abdullah the Cook and Some Interesting Gastronomic Experiences. Thirteen