The Chabunkwa man-eater was dead.Ripping off my belt, I placed a tourniquet on Silent's tattered arm. Also, there is the small consideration that he probably won't be alone. In the beam of the light was clear evidence of a scuffle, the smooth earth torn by striations of long claw marks. We were checking a bait one morning when I caught a movement out of the corner of an eye and saw this lion walking sedately across a small, , or flat, as casually as you please.I told the gentleman to please place a large hole in it with all dispatch, and he got into shooting position. He managed to shout that a lion had him, and his wife bravely snatched up a flaming stick from the campfire and beat the lion in the face with it. We don't have any Game Department people in the area and it'll be a few days before we can get somebody up from Valley Command or Nsefu. Please use a different way to share. If most of the emerging, game-rich countries ever published figures on how many people are killed and eaten by a variety of carnivores within their borders, there would be a tourist recession that would make Black Tuesday look like St. Swithin's Eve.Of course, nobody knows for certain exactly how many people are eaten, the very nature of man-eating having a decided tendency to make evidence somewhat scarce. Willy De Beer was not most men. I couldn't share his enthusiasm. I froze. How many Detroit schoolteachers do you think the tour mongers in Kenya's national parks would have signed up last year if word had gotten out about the photographer who was pulled out of his tent by the head and eaten down to his toenails by a solitary. As the lioness lay chewing on his head, she may have thought that the crushing sounds she heard beneath her teeth were the breaking of the skull bone instead of those of the man's hands and fingers. When I had the aerial rigged after breakfast, he answered my call immediately. , I would personally shoot him. As he smashed into me, seemingly in slow motion, the right barrel fired, perhaps from a conscious trigger pull, perhaps from impact, I'll never know. After all, fried chicken anyone? Wounded lions' scores for homicide are probably about as high as genuine man-eaters, but obviously the moral considerations are quite different. However, unless you've promised your carcass toHarvard, the difference between being nabbed by a certifiable man-eater or having your face bitten off by an irate lady lion are, at best, academic. Except for muscular ripples up and down his flanks, he never moved again. Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. We got within what seemed like inches of that lion, when he let out a fine roar, almost as if he didn't like us there. Death in the Long Grass - , Peter Hathaway Capstick, 9781466803923 A blind shot might kill him. That lion was one trophy that Silent had earned.The doctor examined Silent's wounds, bound them, and gave him a buttful of penicillin against likely infection from the layers of putrefied meat found under the lion'sclaws and on his teeth, then released him in my care. They have not been heard from. One pussycat that wasn't going far. Deciding that repair was imperative, Cornon elected to drive back through the night for spare parts. Nobody had the nerve to go to his aid. It was still breathing. My back flat to the wall, I swung the torch in a slow, wide arc, the dark, grape-jelly gleam of blood spoor reflecting in the lightbeam. Death in the Long Grass 1LionIt is nearly three o'clock in the sweltering morning of September 2, 1974.In four hot, still hours dawn will hemorrhage like a fresh wound in the sky over the eastern Muchingas, the great, towering walls that confine the upper reaches of the Luangwa River in Zambia's Eastern Province. Botswana lions are generally among the largest in Africa. But I find Peter Hathaway Capstick fascinating. as two huge male lions broke into a run across our fronts. ""No one had been bitten. In 1977, he published his first book, Death in the Long Grass, [2] which became a commercial success and established his reputation as an author of true adventure stories. Baits may be deliberately laid out and hung at chest height by wire from a tree or may take the form of previously killed large game such as elephant. The scissor-shaped incisors sheared away huge chunks of meat from buttocks and thighs, the lion chewing with the side of his muzzle until his face and chest were covered with dark gore. Impasse. The bare, beaten earth outside the hut was empty. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2014. In this kind of business you learn to remember close calls only for what they taught you, not for how they might have turned out. Only when I picked up his unfired cartridges and gave them back to him did he believe me. He was buried the next day. Download Season Of The Long Grass full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Her beauty, h." ""It didn't take long to find out about the disturbance. Lions are hunted for the same reason people skydive, race cars, or, in extreme cases, play Russian roulette. All rights reserved. As if in a dream, he shoved his right arm as far as it would go into the enraged animal's mouth, the wood-rasp tongue tight in his fist. Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022. He would have to be able to see the lioness to risk a safe shot. Seconds pass, then the lioness rises and begins to ooze forward, gliding like a tawny wraith between deep clumps of shadow. "Before De Beer could answer, Matthews gave another scream, which mixed with a grunt from the dying lioness. The first time a lion returns to a human kill to finish his meal and receives a whiplash of bullet from a bad shot, you can bet the beer money he won't make the same mistake twice. In a few curt sentences I gave him the succinct impression that anything found wandering around tonight would be shot as the man-eater, so he'd better keep his boys on the straight and narrow. Waves of agony made him gag and wobble, but he pushed the rifle barrel through the window again. It worked, since she backed up, but not without some violent muttering. Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush Hardcover - January 15, 1978 by Peter H. Capstick (Author), M. Philip Kahl (Photographer) 1,734 ratings Kindle $15.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $29.99 Other new, used and collectible from $9.50 Mass Market Paperback $23.95 Other used and collectible from $19.99 , an area swampy in the rains but dry in winter. "Also," he said, shuffling the dirt with a big toe, "they were a little bit drunk." I had come close enough, theoretically, to being a statistic on both occasions to never again underestimate a man-eating feline.I rigged the mosquito netting and took my weekly malaria pill as Silent maneuvered the extra thorn bushes across the barrier. The cat, standing over me, growling horribly, seemed confused, then bounded back to attack Silent. The lioness' breath gagged him as she tried to get his face into her mouth, but, because the paw she was holding him with was in the way, she failed. classic big game animal. Sell it yourself Shop with confidence eBay Money Back Guarantee Get the item you ordered or get your money back. Instantly the lioness bit her through the small of the back and shook her like a terrier with a lamb chop. I had bearded that lion in deep grass at night with an empty gun! As the title says, this book is all about dying and in particular, how Africa tries to do that to you. If we jumped him and he charged us, it would be from such close quarters that there would be time for only one shot, if that. Death in the Long Grass. I also. . She came forward one. I just read it again, and loved it just as much as when it was first published in the late 1970s. . As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capsticks Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known itleading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. I went back into the hut. I took the little plastic bottle of sulfathiozole from my pocket and worked it deeply into his wounds, amazed that the wrist did not seem broken, although the lion's teeth had badly mangled the area. We are after them. At very least, it was quite a first night on safari for Johnnie Cox. I grabbedthe rifle and electric torch, pulled the thorn fence away, and dashed barefoot toward the screams. As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick's Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes. Death in the long grass: Myanmar's snake bite menace Snake charmer Sein Tin cannot remember how many times he's been bitten by snakes, but he believes the writhing tattoos that coil around his arms and body, several depicting Myanmar's mythical "naga" sea serpent, have saved him from mortal wounds. I did not make that walk ever again without a rifle.Another night in Sidamo Province, just across the Ethiopian border from the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, I was camped with the late, great Christian Pollet, a famous professional hunter from the Congo. Highly recced! On the dirt floor beside the tent's walls, a watery moonbeam glows on the scratched white stencil of a footlocker: . We found two dead lions, which were triumphantly dragged back to camp by the now-intrepid occupants of the tree. In her death throes, she had moved down the young man's body and, in a final reflex, bitten the kneecap completelyoff Colin's leg. As Johnnie Cox tells it:"We would miss him, but, after all, we were well ensconced at our water hole. Death in the long grass by Capstick, Peter Hathaway. Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016. In a two-day period, three lions had become increasingly bold, even to the point of entering the camp and eating chickens belonging to the native staff. Ithink we will find this eater of people this day." He has no prized ivory or horn; you cannot eat him, although there are some tribes who do so for sympathetic magic; his pelt is not made into coats. The safety snicked off the .375 as the Rhodesian paused. We left them behind with the water bag after I removed the cartridges from mine. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.Based on Capsticks own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grass portrays the great killers of the African bushnot only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. 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