Word: mombasa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras...
...plunge into African shrubbery on a safari for game and gold. Capt. James Antrim, of the King's African Rifles, splendid fellow that he is, cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among the lions, thirst and loneliness. He turns in his steamer ticket from Mombasa to England, takes command for and of the Rawleys, gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley indulges in the first three and then loses his unpleasant...
...made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head of the zebra, upon which the lion had been feasting, was saved and mounted as a souvenir. Ralph Paine's comment, when the tale was told him at Mombasa, was that meeting a lion on the third green would have put him off his game at least two strokes a hole. The unemotional Englishmen who had to play the lion as-an extra hazard, of course resumed their match as if nothing had happened...