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"The beau ideal of professional elephant hunters...his book has pride of place in my hunting library." -Peter Hathaway Capstick"First to hunt these great beasts in British East Africa...his accounts of elephant hunting are more interesting...than those of any other hunter." -Hunting Big Game (2018)"An enraged cow elephant charged Nuemann...got him down and pummeled him with her head and tusks." -John Guille Millais "Neumann's native name is Bwana Nyama, or the Lord of Meat...a professional ivory hunter." -Richard Meinertzhagen DiaryIn 1877, English explorer, hunter, soldier, farmer and travel writer Arthur Henry Neumann (1850– 1907) took a sabbatical from his life as a merchant and trader to pursue his passion for hunting. He headed for the big game grounds of Swaziland and the low veldt of eastern Transvaal apparently content to lead a solitary life aiming and firing his rifles at the wild-life. Over hunting was all ready taking its toll in the area and gradually Neumann moved further afield to his ultimate goal of East Africa. As Neumann continued his quest for big game the uneasy political situation between the Zulus and the British and their Swazi allies began to unravel and a violent uprising was in the offing in Zululand. Neumann with his fluency in the native language, friendship with the Swazi leaders and an intimate knowledge of the terrain was well placed to act on behalf of a reconnoitring party and accepted a government offer of the rank of captain and command of a detachment of scouts in one of the Swazi contingents.At the end of 1893 Neumann returned to Mombasa to begin a career as an ivory trader. The aim of his fifty strong expedition was to travel to Ndorobo where it was believed large herds of elephants awaited. In late December 1893 at a leisurely pace he set out on a voyage of serendipity lasting fourteen months. Once he had established his depot Neumann was ready to initiate the hunting using his collection of Gibbs-Farquharson rifles. He moved around the interior for the next few months collecting ivory, surveying and occasionally collecting insects and butterflies in the Meru country.Neumann returned to Britain in 1897 where he recuperated and enjoyed his notoriety for the following two years. As was in his nature he pursued a peripatetic existence. He visited the Macleod stronghold of Dunvegan Castle, where he wrote of his exploits and published them as Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, a well-received autobiography that the Edinburgh Review described thus; ‘’we have seldom read a more exciting narrative than this, and the story of many hairbreadth escapes is told with a straightforward simplicity that commands implicit credence.’’ It secured Neumann's name as an elephant hunter and establishment figure.
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- Title: Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-hunting Under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains (1898)
- Author : Arthur H. Neumann
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