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In Africa : hunting adventures in the big game country (1910)

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949, McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949, inscriber. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co. · leaf 371

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THE MOUNT ELGON COUNTRY 283 give presents to many who perhaps were only ama¬ teur or ’prentice sultans, sultans whose domains were only a little village of half a dozen families. For two days our camp was clogged with shauris and sultans sitting around. We couldn’t step out … The Camp Was Clogged with Sultans of our tents without stumbling over a sultan or two. When we would take our baths in our tents there would be sultans and warriors peeping in modestly from all sides. There was not a secret of our inner life that remained intact. Even the ladies, from the…

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