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...know, I know, Leverett House has already seized upon the logo "Club Lev" in one edition of its annually creative house t-shirts. (I believe it was the year after the house spent itself in another flurry of originality by copying the "Banana Republic" safari logo...
That was back in 1960, and it seemed then that the world would never run out of rhinos. "They were everywhere," Bentsen recalls of his first African safari. "They would charge the vehicles. One even walked through camp." These days, a rhino is a rare sight in the African wilderness. In the past 20 years, the black rhino population has plummeted from 65,000 to fewer than 4,000. Rhinos are headed down the trail to extinction because poachers hunt them for their horns. Most rhino horn is smuggled to the Middle East and Asia, where it is carved into...
...done, I went to those places and in most cases found people Greene had met and put into his novels." He tells us that he developed gangrene in South America and got dysentery in the same Mexican boardinghouse where Greene was stricken. In Liberia, locale of Greene's first safari, officials he interviewed had their throats cut a week later, when the government abruptly changed hands...
...hotels charge an additional $250 a person. And don't forget generous gratuities. Money is constantly on the minds of the porters, who see each climb as a test of how large a tip they can extract from their clients ("Bwana, give me your boots when we finish our safari"). These young members of the Wachagga tribe, who spend much of the year working on coffee plantations, saunter upward, balancing 30-lb. sacks of climbers' gear on their heads. Some haul large green wooden boxes of provisions, water jugs -- and even live chickens...
...like to think of our road trip as a safari as it were, and I ain't coming home unless I get some Tiger pelt. Fishy's been lecturing us on the art of the kill and I've been taking notes. In a nutshell, we're armed to kill...