African Hunting: from Natal to the Zambesi, Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc., from 1852 to 1860.

by William Charles Baldwin

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The wildest adventures of hunting in Africa...

This book has everything ... and more!
Lions, hippos, elephants, alligators, treacherous river crossings, fire and innumerable wild animals...

The author of "African Hunting", Charles Baldwin, is one of the most fearless and toughest hunters ever. His book logs his adventures as they happen. Sheer perserverence and pure grit make for coumtless, amazing stories of wild hunting encounters, miraculous escapes, and incredible confontations with hunted animals..


CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I. – 1852
Early Life. Land In Natal.—First Hunting Expedition To St. Lucia Bay

CHAPTER II. – 1853
Hunting Expedition Into The Zulu Country

CHAPTER III. – 1854
Hunting Expedition Into The Amatonga Country

CHAPTER IV. – 1855
A Hunting Trip Into The Zulu Country

CHAPTER V. – 1856
Third Hunting Trip Into The Zulu Country

CHAPTER VI. – 1857
The Transvaal Republic.—Merico Country.—The Maccateese, Or Bechuanas. Sechele. The Masaras. — The Boers. Mosilikatse

CHAPTER VII. – 1858
Machin.—I Am Deserted.—First Visit To Lake Ngami.—Lechulatebe. Sechele's Daughter.—The Bush On Fire. Merico

CHAPTER VIII. – 1859
Sicomo's.— Masaras.— Lake Ngami.— Lopèpè.— Return By Vaal River.—Anecdotes Of Crossing The Tugela

CHAPTER IX. – 1860
Result Of A Zebra Hunt. — Beach Merico. — Visit Sechele. — Elephant Hunt. — The Batokas. — The Zambesi Falls. — Meet With Dr. Livingstone. Intense Heat. — Adventure With A Lion. — Am Joined By English Travelers. Accident To Englishmen. — Return To Natal

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940012881168
Publisher:	Heart and Mind Publishing
Publication date:	06/20/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Baldwin has a honored place in the gallery of Africa's white hunters of the nineteenth century. Arriving at Durban in 1851, he became one of this continent's great travelers, journeying between 12000 and 15000 miles with his wagons during the last three years of his wanderings. In 1860 he earned the distinction of becoming the second known non-African to reach the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River.

Soon after his arrival in Natal, Baldwin joined a party, to Zululand, of eleven men led by 'Elephant' White. Some went to the Pongolo river after elephant, and the others, including Baldwin, to St. Lucia Bay to shoot hippo. He was one of the four survivors of the expedition.

In 1854 he hunted in the Amatonga country and three years later, after a second journey to Zululand, he crossed into the Transvaal where he was offered some 3000 acres of land, for the price of a plough, in the area which is now the Witswatersrand.

His first attempt to visit Mzilikazi's country, present-day Zimbabwe, having failed, he set off the following year for Ngamiland but found the Transvaal and the Orange Free State at war. He was arrested on charge of smuggling ammunition and had nearly all his powder and lead confiscated. He reached Lake Ngami on 11 June1858 after having killed, on the Botletle river, his first elephant in his six years in Africa. On his trip to the Zambezi two years later he and his companions bagged sixty-one elephants.

Editorial Reviews

"For those who relish the joy of the chase, the fragrance of coffee over the evening camp-fire, and the intricate counterpoint of the African symphony, Baldwin has written a classic. Through its pages parades a seemingly inexhaustible menagerie of the land, from the smallest ducks to the mightiest elephants - with Baldwin and his companions in hot pursuit."

Gary W Clendennen