W.D.M. Bell - Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

[Brian Rothhammer]

Reading Room: Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

 

[leslie hetrick]

Reading Room: Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter

i was late for a doc appointment, but it was worth it.

 

[steve white]

Most amazing part? His description of hunting in Liberia, and West Africa where he stopped close range true jungle charges with a 318 Westley Richards. And you thought he could only plink from a distance with the sub calibers!

 

[skydiver386]

I'd love to find a hard copy for sale. It's on my list up near the top.

 

[PCC600]

Most amazing part? His description of hunting in Liberia, and West Africa where he stopped close range true jungle charges with a 318 Westley Richards. And you thought he could only plink from a distance with the sub calibers!

The most amazing bit about his time is Liberia is discovering that the “repatriated” former US slaves had become slave owners themselves.

 

[Flbt]

I kinda like where buff were speared
Since some say a 375 h&h is not enough

 

[steve white]

I'd love to find a hard copy for sale. It's on my list up near the top.

Half Price Books main Dallas store on N W Hwy has a copy right now. Can't remember the price. They will mail it I'm sure. It is in the sports, hunting section.

 

[steve white]

The most amazing bit about his time is Liberia is discovering that the “repatriated” former US slaves had become slave owners themselves.

Yep, and no offense intended, but they sold those whom they called "bush niggers" at the islands of San Tome and Fernando Po for $15 a head. Unbelievable. There was still a lingering division between the repatriated and the native Liberian when I visited 15 years ago. BTW, any person or organization can ship any materials deemed helpful to the people of Liberia free of charge on shipping containers bound for the Firestone Tire Co. rubber plantation. They have to ship them over anyway, in order to return them to the US full of rubber. We have done it twice.

 

[cajunchefray]

The most amazing bit about his time is Liberia is discovering that the “repatriated” former US slaves had become slave owners themselves.

Liberia did not fully live up to the ideals name of the country.
It’s a failure of the human condition, that those that are stronger enslave those less so.
The Atlantic slave trade began when Portuguese explorers in the 1500s traded with the warring tribes from the interior of West Africa.
The traders from the Arabian Peninsula figured this out 2000 years earlier in East Africa.
All of this, a damn shame.