Hunting Big Game by John Alfred Jordan (1956)

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Hunting Big Game by John Alfred Jordan (1956) 

The Laurel and Gold series, Collins Cleartype Press
Includes such tales about a cunning man-eating lion, trading for ivory, man-eating crocodiles, attacks by wild dogs, a wandering elephant hunt and shooting hippopotamus for meat.
John Alfred Jordan (1857 - 1933) was a British traveller, big game hunter and trader. He was also the most notorious ivory poacher along the borders of German East Africa. He killed forty crocodiles in one day on Lake Victoria and hunted for the 'Elephant Stone'.
"My Africa is gone, said Jordan. If I knew it like a book it is now an old book, and its pages are yellow. I have seen a thousand elephants herded in the Semiliki Valley in the noon sun. Their trunks hanging idle, only their ears moving against the flies. I have killed forty crocodile in one day on Victoria Nyanza. I killed crocodile because I hated them, not just for the three rupees a head that the Germans were paying. Nothing else I killed like that."
W Robert Foran wrote in 'A Cuckoo In Kenya' about arresting Jordan for ivory poaching, after which Jordan was convicted, given 6 months' hard labour in Mombasa jail, his ivory confiscated and finally he was deported to Bombay.

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