Savage Sudan : its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life (1921)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) · London ; Edinburgh : Gurney and Jackson · leaf 31
was, “If ever you touch anything soft, clear." Next day my mentor, suddenly springing backwards, landed with iron heel upon my instep. He had stepped on something soft.” It was a puff-adder! Passing over snakes and scorpions, tsetse and seroots, with the whole tribe of flying terrors, we have… … ing from the identical “ Thorns. point. The ubiquitous kitteir (Arabic, kittr) is a masterpiece of vicious malevo¬ lence, and two thousand years ago during the Punic Wars the allied caltrop-thorn suggested an instrument modelled in its own similitude that brought charging cavalry to a standstill. A…
Hunting -- Sudan · Natural history -- Sudan · Sudan -- Description and travel
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