"LION HUNTING IN SOMALILAND - CAPTAIN CJ MELLISS" PETER CAPSTICK SERIES EDITOR

"LION HUNTING IN SOMALILAND - CAPTAIN CJ MELLISS" PETER CAPSTICK SERIES EDITOR, HARDCOVER, 1991 FIRST EDITION, 186 PAGES, NO NAMES, INSCRIPTIONS ETC. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

 "A captain in the 9th Bombay Infantry, C.J. Melliss was a pioneer of those professional soldiers of the Thin Red Line of Empire on Indian duty who found new areas of sport (in Somaliland). Ranging well inland Melliss was able to hunt lions and 'pigstick' warhogs, replacing the Indian sport of tiger and w ild boar hunting. He tells in this book of a day long gone when gentlemen holding the King's commission could pit their rifles against lions in the most primitive conditions, as well as their hand at warthogs with a bamboo and steel lance."