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"Lord Wolverton, who hunted Somalia in the 1890s (amusing himself...by capturing and putting a large bandit tribe to the lash as well as burning its village) was credited...as having taken on lion measuring ten feet ten inches." -Death in the Dark Continent (Peter Hathaway Capstick 1989)
"Frederick Glyn, the 4th Baron Wolverton...fought in the Boer War...was a keen big game hunter, he and another gun bagging 17 lions...published a book on the subject in 1894...Five Months Sport in Somali Land." - The Suffragette Derby (2013)
"Lord Wolverton...spent five months...in Somaliland, and Lord Wolverton's book on that strange...land shows that he has marked powers of observation and real literary gift...shot 17 lions." - The Sketch (1904)
"A graphic and stirring narrative." -Glasgow Herald
Why did Frederick Glyn (4th Baron Wolverton) burn an African village on his successful lion hunting trip in Somaliland?
Lord Wolverton and his companion Colonel Paget went to a land where lions seem to be almost as plentiful as rabbits, and are a terrible scourge to its inhabitants. They slew many lions and much other game, and their exploits and adventures are simply and modestly recorded.
A hundred pages suffice in Wolverton's 1894 book "Five Months' Sport in Somali Land" to tell the story of five months' travel, crowded with incidents of sport, and encounters with rebellious porters, robber villagers, and raiding Abyssinians. The travellers carefully surveyed and mapped out the land to the river Shebeyli. Lord Wolverton is evidently a capital companion, and a cool and trusty man in an emergency.
The author's companions were Colonel Paget and Mr. Wine, the cartographer, and the latter, who went on in advance to Berbera, bought 66 camels to carry the impediments; 88 men were necessary, while a herd of sheep and oxen, 7 donkeys, and 8 ponies formed part of the procession. The magnitude of the undertaking will be the better understood when it is remembered that water for all this livestock had to be carried; moreover, 10 extra camels had to be hired to carry some of the water supply.
Lord Wolverton with Col. Paget wandered for five months from Berbera through Somaliland to the river Shebeyli in a more heroic spirit, shooting lions when they attacked the natives' flocks and killed the herders, dispensing even-handed justice to miscreants who robbed and murdered inoffensive natives, and saving the lives of an African Hagar and her son, whom they found in the desert. The chivalric tone of the whole narrative causes the reader to catch the writer's enthusiasm.
The staple of the game shot by the friends was lions, and the habits of these animals are graphically portrayed. Once the sportsmen , saw two lions and three lionesses dash into the midst of a flock of sheep, kill right and left till the ground was strewn with carcasses, and then strike down the unfortunate shepherdess. In three days Lord Wolverton and his friend tracked out and shot all these marauders. During their expedition they killed 16 lions.
During one of the marches the party came across an aged Somali, his wife, and two children nearly dead from starvation, they having been robbed of their cattle and nearly beaten to death by some Midyans, "low-class Somalis," who were the predatory classes of that district. Colonel Paget went off with a guide and half the men to capture the village, leaving Lord Wolverton to defend the camp and make a prison for the captives. In due course the Colonel returned with all the village people, the village itself having been destroyed, and all the cattle taken. The sentence was that all the wrongdoers should be well flogged, a sentence which appears to have been carried out by the attendant men with considerable spirit.
In addition to lions, sundry other game fell to the guns and rifles of Lord Wolverton and Col. Paget, and in due time a very successful trip came to an end.
About the author:
Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton (1864 – 1932), was a British banker and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Arthur Balfour from 1902 to 1905. Lord Wolverton was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the North Somerset Yeomanry on 29 January 1900. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Lord Wolverton joined the Imperial Yeomanry. He left Southampton on board the SS Scot in late January 1900, and arrived in South Africa the following month.
"Frederick Glyn, the 4th Baron Wolverton...fought in the Boer War...was a keen big game hunter, he and another gun bagging 17 lions...published a book on the subject in 1894...Five Months Sport in Somali Land." - The Suffragette Derby (2013)
"Lord Wolverton...spent five months...in Somaliland, and Lord Wolverton's book on that strange...land shows that he has marked powers of observation and real literary gift...shot 17 lions." - The Sketch (1904)
"A graphic and stirring narrative." -Glasgow Herald
Why did Frederick Glyn (4th Baron Wolverton) burn an African village on his successful lion hunting trip in Somaliland?
Lord Wolverton and his companion Colonel Paget went to a land where lions seem to be almost as plentiful as rabbits, and are a terrible scourge to its inhabitants. They slew many lions and much other game, and their exploits and adventures are simply and modestly recorded.
A hundred pages suffice in Wolverton's 1894 book "Five Months' Sport in Somali Land" to tell the story of five months' travel, crowded with incidents of sport, and encounters with rebellious porters, robber villagers, and raiding Abyssinians. The travellers carefully surveyed and mapped out the land to the river Shebeyli. Lord Wolverton is evidently a capital companion, and a cool and trusty man in an emergency.
The author's companions were Colonel Paget and Mr. Wine, the cartographer, and the latter, who went on in advance to Berbera, bought 66 camels to carry the impediments; 88 men were necessary, while a herd of sheep and oxen, 7 donkeys, and 8 ponies formed part of the procession. The magnitude of the undertaking will be the better understood when it is remembered that water for all this livestock had to be carried; moreover, 10 extra camels had to be hired to carry some of the water supply.
Lord Wolverton with Col. Paget wandered for five months from Berbera through Somaliland to the river Shebeyli in a more heroic spirit, shooting lions when they attacked the natives' flocks and killed the herders, dispensing even-handed justice to miscreants who robbed and murdered inoffensive natives, and saving the lives of an African Hagar and her son, whom they found in the desert. The chivalric tone of the whole narrative causes the reader to catch the writer's enthusiasm.
The staple of the game shot by the friends was lions, and the habits of these animals are graphically portrayed. Once the sportsmen , saw two lions and three lionesses dash into the midst of a flock of sheep, kill right and left till the ground was strewn with carcasses, and then strike down the unfortunate shepherdess. In three days Lord Wolverton and his friend tracked out and shot all these marauders. During their expedition they killed 16 lions.
During one of the marches the party came across an aged Somali, his wife, and two children nearly dead from starvation, they having been robbed of their cattle and nearly beaten to death by some Midyans, "low-class Somalis," who were the predatory classes of that district. Colonel Paget went off with a guide and half the men to capture the village, leaving Lord Wolverton to defend the camp and make a prison for the captives. In due course the Colonel returned with all the village people, the village itself having been destroyed, and all the cattle taken. The sentence was that all the wrongdoers should be well flogged, a sentence which appears to have been carried out by the attendant men with considerable spirit.
In addition to lions, sundry other game fell to the guns and rifles of Lord Wolverton and Col. Paget, and in due time a very successful trip came to an end.
About the author:
Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton (1864 – 1932), was a British banker and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Arthur Balfour from 1902 to 1905. Lord Wolverton was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the North Somerset Yeomanry on 29 January 1900. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Lord Wolverton joined the Imperial Yeomanry. He left Southampton on board the SS Scot in late January 1900, and arrived in South Africa the following month.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940161005033 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 04/21/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton (1864 – 1932), was a British banker and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Arthur Balfour from 1902 to 1905. Lord Wolverton was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the North Somerset Yeomanry on 29 January 1900. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Lord Wolverton joined the Imperial Yeomanry. He left Southampton on board the SS Scot in late January 1900, and arrived in South Africa the following month.
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