Seventeen trips through Somáliland

Seventeen trips through Somáliland - A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893

Somliland, the new British Protectorate, is in some respects one of the most interesting regions of the African Continent. In the present daily life of its natives we have represented to us something of the wandering patriarchal existence of Biblical times. The country contains ruins which probably date back to a period of very ancient civilisation. It is, moreover, the threshold to the mysterious nomad Glla tribes who inhabit the land between the Gulf of Aden and the Great African Lakes. Somliland is the home of most varieties of African large game, and affords one of the best and most accessible of hunting-grounds to be found at the present time. In the intervening years, between 1884 and 1893, professional duties necessitated my undertaking several journeys in Somliland, with the object of exploration. In the intervals between these journeys I devoted my periods of leave to hunting in that country. During a period of nine years I undertook seventeen separate journeys to the interior, and so became familiar with the chief elements of interest to be found there. At the outset of my travels my age was twenty-five. I enjoyed absolute freedom of movement, and at this period had full control of a small escort of Indian cavalry. The[x] sense of responsibility, and the prospect of exploring new country, filled me with delight and awakened my faculties. When I first entered the interior of Somliland, in 1885, it was practically an untraversed country; and hitherto, though unjustly so, it had always borne the reputation of being the desert home of bigoted and ferocious savages. My principal object in writing this book is to present phases of life in nomadic North-East Africa, and to supply detailed information of a nature that might prove useful to travellers and sportsmen who wish to visit that country. As my brother and I have always been pioneering, the men who have followed in our footsteps have naturally had better opportunities for sport than we had, and I only give such of my more successful sporting experiences as will assist me in my main object of giving a general portrait of the country. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57907
Author: Swayne, H. G. C. (Harald G. C.)
Release Date: Sep 14, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English