Tarka, interestingly enough my PH made same statement when I killed my Nyala, the chevrons across the nose are the thumbs and the two spots on the side the index and middle fingers.

As I have stated here before.

Africa Calls - Rege Podraza

Ancient land of claw and thorn
Thunderous hooves and spiraled horn
Sweltering days and frigid nights
Poisnous snakes and insect bites
A land of adventure, pain and sorrow
Long nights and short tommorrows
Feast and famine, drought and rain
Endless pleasure, eternal pain
Like a moth to the flame
Africa calls...no, shouts my name!

"Hatari tembo!"

I was reliably the slowest runner, so everyone else was safe!

"You can not have to much gin or ammunition."
Robert Ruark on preparing for safari.
How true...

The most electrifying two words on Safari!

"He's coming!"

465H&H

"For a boy to want to spend his time in the woods with a good dog and a gun is a natural healthy desire. To dress up and go prancing around a floor with some young girl is sheer stupidity."

J.A. Hunter

I believe it was from the movie The Snows of Kilimanjaro, after a charge that went well for the client, the PH explains it all to the lady character:
"This excitement, courage if you call it, the way he feels it, it´s a man´s feeling; it´s natural in a man, it grows in a man and makes him a man... not particularly to his credit if he has it but something missing if he hasn't."

Boha

...Rusty quoted one of my favorites. However, here is another snippet I think will jog the memory of anyone who has hunted elephant, and has experienced a charge. This is an event you'll never forget. Neil Murray describes it thus:

"The elephant often charges to the accompaniment of a blast of high-pitched trumpeting-caused by forcibly expelling air from its trunk-which sounds like an orchestra of outraged demons. Except perhaps for the prospect of imminent hanging, there can be few situations that concentrate the mind more wonderfully."

And one more, from Paul Smiles book "LAND OF THE BLACK BUFFALO"
"...I took my hat off and raised my eyes above the dune-and there I saw them-buffaloes dreaming in the dappled shade, hundreds of them, all standing with heads down and their eyes half closed. There was not a sound. It was like coming into a church where everyone knelt in silent meditation. The sunlight streamed down in shafts between the trees, forming little glades, sometimes catching a black hide half hidden in the shadows. For half an hour we lay there and watched them and then we withdrew, almost tiptoeing away to recross the dry river bed.
Matetsi nodded his head slowly. "You see, Morena? The buffaloes seek council for the night."
I knew what he meant, and without doubt he was right. ALL LIFE NEEDS SOME SECRET PLACE WHERE IT CAN FIND PEACE. (caps added)

Bwanamich:

Anybody who quotes Ortega y Gasset about hunting has`me on his side! ( Didn't he also write: " It is not all of hunting to kill" ?) Anyway, I like what an old Roman (Cato) said about a troublesome place on the North African coast: " Carthago delenda est!". (I only hope that Tim Carney doesn't descend on me to correct my Latin)

The object of the sport of hunting big, dangerous game under adverse conditions is not to get killed any more than the object of the rock climber is to fall to his death. It is rather the deliberate exposure of one's life to the real possibility of death purely for the sake of the experience itself. Sneer if you will, but you only will have half-lived your life if you never feel the icy clutch of danger for its own sake. PHC

I can't remember who wrote this,but it was a memeber here.
On his PH shooting his Buffalo.

I asked my PH "Why did you shoot my Buffalo??"PH answered "Your shot was good and he would have died within 40 yards,problem is the buffalo was only 10 yards away from us"

"A safari is one of the few justifiable reasons for borrowing money." O r words to that effect. Robert Ruark I don't recall which book.

My favorite line is a simple one and I'm not sure of the original author. It is wonderful advice for dangerous game hunting!

"Pay the insurance"

"Shit, that was close!!" Myles McCallum to me after being charged by a wounded crop raiding bull elephantin Chewore South, 2006

"I declare lunch"

Philip our PH each noon on our PG hunt in Zim.