My absolute favorite, which does get into Africa a bit, is Noel E. Money's (eldest son of Capt. A.W. Money aka Bluerock) shooting diaries that are in the rare books collection of the library of the Irving K. Barber Learning Center at the University of British Columbia. As a young Lt. in the 1880s he was assigned in India and did a lot of Boar hunting. Tigers must have been reserved for higher ranking officers! In the U.S. when he was working in the American E.C. & Schultze Powder Co. with his Father, in the 1890s, he went to Montana for Bison & Grizzly, and also Duck shooting along the Mississippi at Wapanoca. He then returned to England for some shooting then went hunting in the Atlas Mountains in North Africa. Then once Czar N-II got his railroad to Lake Baikal he went to Siberia Bear hunting. He then returned to serve Queen and Country in the Boar War in South Africa. He served again in The Great War, by then a Brigadier. He was with Allenby in Palestine and less than two weeks after taking Jeruselem he was out shooting Chuckers with his fellow officers. When his unit returned to Alexandria for the winter he spent much of his time shooting Ducks along the Nile. Got to hand it to the aides for quickly getting shotguns and shells to their officers during wartime conditions!!
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