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 THE
ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER
Sutherland, James
Price
$39.95 HB
This classic elephant-hunting title was first published in London in
1912. It was so successful that the second imprint was published within one
month of the first. Sutherland's classic tale is regarded as one of the best
elephant titles ever, and one of the very few books to rival Walter Bell's
books. Sutherland was an accomplished hunter and adventurer, and the amount
of heavy tuskers in Africa at that time must have been nearly unbelievable,
so the combination of the two meant unparalleled hunting and adventure.
Sutherland started hunting in northern Mozambique by the Luganda River, a
very remote area in those days, but he also hunted as far up as the Ruvuma
River, which was the frontier between Mozambique and the then German East
Africa. In 1902 when the Portuguese tried to arrest him for hunting without
a permit, he crossed into GEA and remained there until the outbreak of the
Great War in 1914. In 1905 Sutherland became involved in the Maji-Maji
revolt, fighting with the Germans against the Watai and Angoni tribes. By
1912 he had shot more elephant than any other man alive. Several times in
his career he was tossed and knocked about by elephants and was lucky to
escape with his life! His expeditions in search of ivory lasted many months
or sometimes years, so he had tremendous stories to tell of his many
exciting and adventurous safaris.
*This is not included in the book: [In 1914 Sutherland joined the Nyasaland
Intelligence Field Force, where he served with distinction. After the war he
went to British East Africa, then to Uganda and the Belgian Congo in 1919,
always pursuing the ivory trail. He hunted elephant in the northern Congo
for a couple of years and around 1922 crossed into Ubangi-Shari where the
French authorities still issued commercial licenses that allowed an
unlimited number of elephant to be shot.]
Among the 1,200 tuskers he shot, some were colossal. His best pair weighed
152 and 137 lbs. and his next best weighed 140 and 145 lbs. In 1929 James
Sutherland fell victim to a conspiracy against the whites by the Azande
tribe, and he was poisoned. Although he survived, he never fully recovered.
He died in 1932 and was buried near Yubo, the Sudan, mourned by his friends
as one of the greatest elephant hunters of all time.
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