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    A Novice on the Nile - Big Game Hunting in the Sudan
    A Novice on the Nile - Big Game Hunting in the Sudan
    A Novice on the Nile - Big Game Hunting in the Sudan
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    A Novice on the Nile - Big Game Hunting in the Sudan

    By Frank Weber

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    Originally published in the early 1900s. this extremely scarce hunting book is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition; we have now republished it using the original text and photographs. This is an enthralling true account of Frank Weber's first hunting trip along the White Nile in the Upper Sudan. Accompanied by a lifelong friend and experienced hunter he sets forth from England via Trieste and Alexandria, through Cairo to Khartum, then joined by native guides and bearers, they begin their hunt along the banks of the Nile. Equipped with double .470's, light magazine rifles, a 10 Bore, and shotguns, they seek to take a number of specimens from the area's big game population. Their list of quarry include elephant, buffalo, eland, ibex, waterbuck, various gazelle, kob, "Mrs Gray", crocodiles and hippo's. etc. Fifty four pages are packed with exciting anecdotes of their often dangerous attempts to bag specimens of each of these. The book also contains a number of early black and white trophy photographs and an area map. The author professes to be a novice hunter, but guided by his more experienced companion ends the safari with a fair share of the total bag. This small book is a fascinating record of early big game hunting in one of the more inaccessible hunting grounds of Africa, and will prove of much interest to all sportsmen and historians of that era. Many of the earliest sporting books, particularly those dating back to the 1800s, are now extremely scarce and very expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9781447487715
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      A Novice on the Nile - Big Game Hunting in the Sudan - Frank Weber

      Impressions

      A Novice on the Nile.

      THE following account might perhaps be useful to anyone without previous experience who should be contemplating a shooting trip in Upper Sudan.

      ·     ·     ·     ·     ·     ·

      CHAPTER I.

      PRELIMINARY.

      OUR party consisted of T. and the Novice; the latter was too near fifty, had no previous experience of the pursuit of big game, and but little with a rifle, had never before seen Egypt or the Sudan, and knew no Arabic: T. had the strength of the twenties, experience with tiger, panther, bear, etc., in India, and had chased ibex in Sinai, was a useful shot with a rifle, and, having been quartered some time in Egypt, had acquired a fair smattering of Arabic.

      Our armament was to consist of a double-barrelled .470, a light magazine rifle, and a shot-gun, each. As it turned out, the second .470 was not forthcoming, and T. carried in its stead a double-barrelled 10-bore, which proved not altogether suitable against elephant. T. had, with difficulty, obtained paper cartridge-cases for his 10-bore, failing altogether to get brass ones, and himself cast the bullets and loaded the cartridges; his success with his lioness and buffalo was to his credit, but the difficulty of extracting the cases after firing, owing, principally, to the damp atmosphere, but sometimes to rain, fording of rivers and swamps, or even perspiration, made contact with dangerous game more dangerous—especially with elephant. The Novice’s (borrowed) William Evans .470 was a lovely weapon, and he can see nothing to better the organisation, as originally intended, of our party’s armament. 200 rounds (150 explosive and 50 solid) for the light rifle, 150 (100 solid and 50 explosive) for the .470, should suffice for a month or five weeks on the game-ground. Some like to carry a few bullet-cartridges for the shot-gun; some like to add to their armament a very small-bore rifle; some prefer to use a telescopic sight. Grouping with each rifle should in any case be carried out beforehand.

      ·     ·     ·     ·     ·     ·

      The Novice started from England with not too much baggage, but some of it proved unsuitable. What is best to wear is a subject of controversy, but after the seven or eight weeks’ experience in the Bahr-el-Ghazal he favoured a sun-helmet or a double tirai,* a flannel shirt, of suitable colour, open at the neck and hanging loose outside the breeches, a very light coat, short in the skirt but with a sufficiency of pockets, thin breeches without leather strappings (which dry badly after a wetting), pliable gaiters (stockings and putties are both unsuitable for hours of wading through swamp), Fortnum and Masen rubber-soled boots (bad on desert after a shower), with field-glasses hung caseless round the neck, a knife with a big blade, and a shot-gun cartridge-belt for use on trek.

      The following items of kit are necessary to each individual of a party:—the best possible mosquito-net; a pair of mosquito-boots to wear over pyjamas after sundown; something like Citronella to keep off mosquitoes for an hour or two (say, during dinner); a canvas water-bottle; a camp-bed, for insects render lying on the ground disagreeable; a chair to take out during mid-day halts, or immediately on arrival in camp; a bath, of course; an electric torch—a battery should last a month. It is pleasant to have one’s own camera, with perhaps a dozen rolls of six films each. A litesite for night shooting over a kill might have been useful—but we never got an opportunity to use ours. A fountain pen gets dried up, but one wants some stationery.

      For the party, as distinct from the individual, there are wanted:—

      Cooking Utensils, etc.; we had a primus stove but never used it; a mincing machine is to be recommended, as the climate prevents any hanging of the game.

      Camp Table.

      Medicine Chest—every white man is regarded by the natives as a trained medico with a pharmacy at his disposal.

      Dubbin for

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