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Another one to look for is Sport in Egypt by James Wentworth Day. It does contain some useful English-Arabic phrases such as:
Shut up, you son of sixty donkeys. - iskut ya ibn sitteen homar.
Did the pellets get you in the leg? - El rush gey fi riglak?
I am an English Officer - ana zabet ingleezi.
He had been eating beetles. - huwa kan biyakul khunfis.
All very useful bits to know. Lagopus..... p.s. an Arabic speaking friend did confirm the correctness of the above.
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Great stuff Mal!!!
He loved that John Dickson, quoting him as saying;
"...and Dickson of Edinburgh - a two grooved, the most perfect and useful rifle I ever had the pleasure of using"
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After the Dickson blew up, it took him 32 shots using the Moore and Purdey 16 bores alternatly to kill an elephant. Things got better when he traded some ivory for the Westley 10 bore and proceeded to harvest many elephant thereafter. Some with huge ivory. It seems the Purdey was only used as a stand-in; probably why it survived at all. It was regulated for round ball and only 1-1/2 drams powder. With the rifle is a long handled mold for a short conical bullet along with the ball mold.
Best, Mal
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A pretty good book you may consider is "Game Trails from Alaska to Africa" by R. M. Carpenter. I also 2nd or 3rd the opinion of "Hunter" by J.A. Hunter! Very good book.
Jack K
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Don't leave out "African Twilight" by Robert Jones!
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Don't leave out "African Twilight" by Robert Jones! Or "Diamond Bogo" (for a really different safari) by the same author...Geo
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Mal,
What page are you on?? I can't find that in my version of his book. I think I have the edited version of his book and need the version you have.
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I have the 1st American edition Harper Bros. 1851 2 vols.
He relates this exploit on pages 20 through 23 of vol 2.
I misquoted as I was working from memory, sorry. It took 24 shots!
Still a bit tough on the elephant! This must have taken at least a half hour just to load and fire.
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Mal, I found it, chapter 17, page 189 in my volume. I don't know, firing shots from 15 to 35 paces away, sounds like more than a fair fight to me. The Dickson blew up because he didn't take care of it. He even admits that the rifle was extremely dirty and extremely hard to load when he fired it for the last time. 
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Franc - Great stuff! I went through a BIG African phase a few years ago which resulted in me spending a lot of cash with limited edition books from Safari Press.
I own (and have read) some of the books others have recommended. But two not mentioned are real standouts for me. 'Baron in Africa' by Brian Marsh is a fantastic read. Another good one is 'Kambaku' by Harry Manners.
As an aside, it looks like I might be entering another dark continent phase. Among the books I just ordered through Safari Press' summer sale are 'The Wheel of Life' by Bunny Allen and 'The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter' by W.D.M. Bell.
After WWII my father worked building roads and bridges in Liberia for a bit over a year. Unfortunately he wasn't a hunter, but he brought back many things, some of which grace the shelves of my library's African section: 2 small carved ivory elephants, carved ebony figurines, a powderhorn with various leathers and leopard skin encasing it and tribal carved "jewlery" among them.
You'e made me want to skip going to bed now and immerse myself in all this "Aficana"! It is powerful stuff!
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