I found Col. Patterson's book online for those of you that would enjoy a fine african story.

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/tsavo/tsavo.html

I hope you enjoy it.

Joe

What a wonderful old read this one is. I remember the story about where one of his men was taken by a crocodile after a long hunt. The croc dragged him in and he left his knife and bow laying on the ground where he was taken. The two other blacks weren't worried about the lost man, they were arguing over who got what of his stuff. Patterson questioned the men about the fact that they had no remorse for their fallen friend, and their reaction was "He was only a savage anyway". Now that was Old Africa.


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Hey, I just remembered another part of the book. It seems that Patterson wanted to shoot a Hippo, but wasn't having much luck doing so. So, he descided to hunt them at night from a tree overlooking their trails near the river. All went well until he saw something in the moonlight stalking them. He thought that he was seeing things, then under hard concentration he realized that it was a Leopard.

I bet that was an adrenaline rush!


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Man, that's a long read. I just saved it so I could read it later on. Thanks.

I read up to the death of the Lions and then ordered the book. I thought it would be nice to have such a grand story in case the kids or grandkids ever want to learn about Africa.

Joe

Thanks for the link!

I just love these vintage books online!

Where there not a few articles out to slander Patterson's acheivements, saying there were more than 2 lions, the killings didn't stop etc? It reminds me of the people who tried to tell us that WDM Bell "surely" wounded many elephants and that he wasn't so special after all, their uncle Jebediah with his savage .308 could have done even better!

I'm not sure of the "truth" of the whole saga. I just know its a fun read.

Joe

There are people that do things and become famous.

There are people that write about the thing they do, or about people that do things. And become famous.

Then there are the people that do nothing but need to criticise the things others have done. To get the pathetic attention they crave.