AFTER BIG GAME

THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN HOLIDAY

R. S. MEIKLE
AND
MRS M. E. MEIKLE

T. WERNER LAURIE LTD.

No date. [1917]

First edition.

The Meikles were friends of the Governor of Kenya, Sir Henry Belfield and visited East Africa on safari in 1912 at his invitation and were treated royally wherever they went.

The first third of the book relates to the authors' travels on the Uganda Railway and on an excursion to German East Africa. With a safari consisting of 144 members, the Meikles proceeded to hunt in British East Africa near the Guaso Nyiro. They bagged hartebeest, oryx, rhinoceros, lion, gerenuk and waterbuck. After a bout with dysentery, the party returned to the field where Mrs. Meikle relates a variety of camp experiences with a bit of buffalo hunting mixed in. (Czech, Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books.)

There is a final chapter written by F. G. Aflalo on angling in the Protectorate. It includes sea-fish at Mombasa, trout in the Aberdares, barbel at the Nile Falls and the giant perch and tigerfish of Lake Albert.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. ALONG THE UGANDA RAILWAY
MOMBASA TO NAIROBI
NAIROBI
NAIROBI TO VICTORIA NYANZA
THE SOURCE OF THE NILE
MOMBASA
ZANZIBAR
GERMAN EAST AFRICA
DAR ES SALAAM
TANGA

PART II. HUNTING EXPERIENCES
ON SAFARI
INTRODUCTORY
THE GUASO NYIRO
VOI AND TSAVO
THE LAIKIPIA PLAINS

PART III. SPECIAL SUBJECTS
SOME RACES AND CUSTOMS
VARIOUS PESTS, INSECTS AND OTHERWISE
SOME PROSPECTS AND OPINIONS

PART IV. FISHING IN THE PROTECTORATE

23 x 16 cm. vii + 327 pp. Frontispiece + 31 plates + folding map.

Very good condition. Title dulled on the spine and with a short split to the cloth at the head. Corners of the boards lightly bumped and worn. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Closed tear to the folding map repaired with archival tape. Mild foxing, mainly to the page edges, otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound, all plates present.