In Wildest Africa, Vol. 1

Brought up in the school of German sportsmanship, I had later on to change completely my view as to our distinction between “noxious animals” and “beasts of prey.” The African w...

“To have passed a thousand and more days, a thousand and more nights in the wilderness with a great longing in my heart in some way to grasp and make my own all the splendour I...

But it is not the velt or the African desert that lies below us as we rise one moment a hundred yards above the surface of the earth and the next three hundred yards and more. I...

Before me is a miniature mountain-world lighted up by the dazzling sunbeams. There is a mass of precipitous rocks, so characteristic of the Masai-Nyíka district, that stretches...

The Elelescho is as prominent in those regions as the oak and beech or fir in Germany, or as the juniper, the heath, and the broom, and has the same influence on the landscape....

He makes a critical investigation of this disturbing fact, and he most strongly advocates restrictive laws and the establishment of reservations for wild animals. He puts himsel...

No one had the least anxiety about the night. We quietly allowed the Moran[2] to bivouac near the camp. Our march through the wild highlands of the Wasotiko and the Wanandi had...

But in this department it is to all increasing extent the duty of our German museums to promote a knowledge of and an interest in the animal world of far-off lands by the displa...

Now a numerous herd of zebras moved through the wood and across the clearing at a slow, careless pace. As they moved there was a bright shimmering of the variegated stripes of t...

To-day one may perhaps read in the _East African Gazette_ that Mr. Smith, the railway engineer, favoured by extraordinary luck on a hunting expedition, has seen one solitary bul...

Some fifty years later, at the period of the journeys of Captain William Cornwallis Harris,[20] as I have already remarked, the same conditions prevailed, with regard to the abu...

I never dreamed that my book _With Flashlight and Rifle_--alike in its German and its English and American editions--would receive everywhere so kind a welcome, or that it would...

Now at last the lion raises his commanding voice, and one thing only is wanting to the whole nocturnal spell--the noisy trampling of timid and harassed droves of zebras and othe...