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 334
268 SAVAGE SUDAN exist water-beetles as big- as some rabbits I’ve seen! There are also water-pythons, water-turtles as big as a cart-wheel, and monitor lizards 6 feet long. All these one sees occasionally ; but there is also evidence of things not seen — some of them monsters, as testified by great… … Whale-headed Stork (Balamiceps rex), nothing of it, its narrow from life. being Qn the Bahr-el-Ghazal, a trifle to the west of our hunting-grounds.1 But we did meet here with a new acquaintance of the stork-persuasion, never at this season seen north of the Sudd — to wit, “ Abdim’s stork,” a…
Hunting -- Sudan · Natural history -- Sudan · Sudan -- Description and travel
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