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285 Brown, James Ambrose. THEY FOUGHT FOR KING AND KAISER: South Africans in German East Africa, 1916. Johannesburg: Ashanti, 1991.

xviii, 374 p.: ill., ports., maps. (South Africans at war series; vol. 6). Paper covered boards, d.w. R 250
286 Capell, A.E. THE 2ND RHODESIA REGIMENT IN EAST AFRICA; foreword by Major-General Sir Alfred H.M. Edwards. London: Simson, 1923.

132 p.: maps (1 folding as frontis.). Cloth, faded with stain & worn on spine. Name & force number on front endpaper (Sgt. Albert E. Cloete, 1219, attested on 2 September 1915). R 1500

Early in August 1914, a small force of the B.S.A. Police and Northern Rhodesia Police, under the command of Major A. Essex Capell, D.S.O., left Victoria Falls with orders to capture Schuckmannsburg, a small German outpost in the Caprivi Zipfel, together with adjacent territory, and this was accomplished without resistance on September 21, 1914. This was one of the first German posts to surrender and the captured enemy flag was placed in the Regimental Sergeant's Mess at the Police Depot, Salisbury. A number of other Police officers as well as other ranks were seconded to the Regiment which left for active service in East Africa in March, 1915. The Police suffered many casualties (including from illness, especially malaria) before the remnants of the Regiment returned to Salisbury after two years of hard campaigning and was disbanded.
287 Coupland, R. THE EXPLOITATION OF EAST AFRICA, 1856-1890: the slave trade and the scramble. London: Faber and Faber, 1939.

ix, 507 p.: ports. (1 as frontis.), col. folding map. Cloth, d.w. frayed & faded on spine. Spotting on page edges & preliminary pages. R 250

288 Depelchin, H. & Croonenberghs, C. JOURNEY TO GUBULUWAYO: letters of Frs H. Depelchin and C. Croonenberghs, S.J., 1879, 1880, 1881; translated by Moira Lloyd; introduced, edited and annotated by R.S. Roberts. Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1979.

xi, 375 p., [14] p. of plates: ill., ports. maps (1 folding). (Rhodesia reprint library. Silver series; vol. 24). Paper covered boards, d.w. Originally published in French in 1882. R 600

A party of Jesuit priests from the Zambesi Mission arrived at Gubuluwayo on 2 September 1879. The two Belgian fathers describel their long journey via ox-cart from Grahamstown to Tai (through the Cape Colony and Bechuanaland) where they set up a base before they went on to King Lobengula's Gubuluwayo, where they established themselves. Of interest is their account of Matabele history, customs and ceremonies, and life at Lobengula's court.
289 Donovan, C.H.W. WITH WILSON IN MATABELELAND, or, SPORT AND WAR IN ZAMBESIA; by Captain C.H.W. Donovan; with a new frontispiece, foreword, appendix and index. Facsimile reprint. Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1979.

xiv, 335 p.: ill. (port. as frontis.), folding map. (Rhodesiana Reprint Library. Silver series; vol. 23). Paper covered boards, d.w. Slight spotting to page edges. Originally published in 1894. R 300

An account of Donovan's duck-shooting, big-game hunting and tiger-fishing experiences as he moved northwards en route to Fort Victoria. Once there he responded to Dr Jameson's appeal to repel the Matabele who were raiding the local Mashonas. He gives an account of the events of 1893. "His comments on the first military engagements in Rhodesia, and the effects of modern arms on the combatants make a meaningful contribution to the early records of the Occupation" Front endflap.
290 Fry, W. Ellerton. OCCUPATION OF MASHONALAND: views by W. Ellerton Fry: … [an] album of photographs taken on the Pioneer Column of 1890…; with the addition of maps; and new text, captions and a bibliography prepared by Peter McLaughlin. Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1982.

xvi, 175 p.: ill., frontis., ports., maps (1 folding). Oblong 4to. Half leather & cloth with gilding. No. 142 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Originally published in October 1891. R 3000

Lieutenant W. Ellerton Fry was an Intelligence Officer of the Pioneer Corps.
291 Government of Rhodesia. MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. Salisbury: Government of Rhodesia, 1978.

38 p.: ill. Pict. paper wraps. R 150

Issued by the Rhodesian government in the last days of white rule, it contains some of the most graphic photographs of the terror war visited on the mainly rural residents of that country. It was a plea for sympathy and the use of the material an indication of the despair felt at the time. A stamp of the "Save Rhodesia Campaign" on the rear cover has been crossed out above a stamp of the "South Africa First Campaign" (with the same address). There is another stamp on the front cover: "A taste of life under Mugabe - this must not happen in South Africa".
292 Hempstone, Smith. KATANGA REPORT. London: Faber and Faber, 1962.

212 p. Cloth, d.w. Small name stamp on front free endpaper. R 150

293 Lagus, Charles. OPERATION NOAH; introduction by Peter Scott. London: William Kimber, in association with the Fauna Preservation Society, 1959.

176 p.: ill., ports., map. Paper covered boards, d.w. price clipped but in unusually good condition. R 250

An account of Operation Noah, whereby over 6000 wild animals were rescued from the rising waters of Lake Kariba.
294 Lecanides, Basil. GORONGOSA: grass and game. Pretoria: Wallachs, 1948.

95 p.: ill., frontis. Stiff pict. paper wraps, d.w. Name & address on half title page. Repairs to front & rear hinges. R 650

The Gorongosa Game Reserve in Mozambique became a National Park in 1948. Lecanides describes a safari in the Reserve and his camps along the Zambezi prior to this period. He notes the dire need for stricter administration of the game laws as the denuding of the area of game became evident. He makes the pertinent point that it was the advent of motorised transport that made the wholesale destruction of game possible, as weekend hunting safaris became accessible to many. Includes notes on the Gorongoza Game Reserve and the big game of Manica and Sofala.
295 Sangiro [pseud.]. SIMBA. Johannesburg: Transvaler-Boekhandel, [1944].

335 p.: ill. Cloth, d.w. with chips to edges of spine. Name & date on front free endpaper. Portrait of Sangiro pasted down on a preliminary page. R 450

Sangiro was the pseudonym of Andries Albertus Pienaar (1894-1979), who dedicated this book to a man interned by the Union government of General Smuts. He recounts hunting and travel anecdotes of his life in East Africa.
296 Selous, Frederick Courteney. SUNSHINE AND STORM IN RHODESIA: [being a narrative of events in Matabeleland, both before and during the recent native insurrection, up to the date of the disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force]. Facsimile ed. Bulawayo : Books of Rhodesia, 1968.

xxvii, 290 p.: ill., ports., folding maps. (Rhodesiana reprint library. [Gold series]; vol. 2). Cloth, d.w. Slight spotting to preliminary pages & page edges. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1896. R 500

297 Selous, Frederick Courteney. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA: [being the narrative of the last eleven years spent by the author on the Zambesi and its tributaries…]. Facsimile ed. Bulawayo : Books of Rhodesia, 1972.

xviii, 503 p.: ill., ports., col. folding map. (Rhodesiana reprint library. [Gold series]; vol. 25). Pict. paper covered boards with gilding, d.w. Slight spotting on page edges. Reprint of the 1893 edition. R 500

The first nine chapters are devoted to Selous' experiences with the Boers and native tribesmen while engaged in hunting expeditions in order to collect specimens of fauna. The latter part includes an account of the Chartered Company's expedition to Mashonaland, in which Selous played a prominent part. See Mendelssohn, vol. 2, p. 300.
298 Steer, G.L. CAESAR IN ABYSSINIA. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936.

411 p., [4] leaves of plates: maps (1 folding). Cloth, d.w. frayed along top of spine. R 350

Steer used the title ironically, concluding "My task is rather in this book to show what was the strength and spirit of the Ethiopian armies sent against a European Great Power. My conclusions are that they had no artillery, no aviation, a pathetic proportion of automatic weapons and modern rifles, and ammunition sufficient for two days' modern battle. I have seen a child nation, ruled by a man who was both noble and intelligent, done brutally to death almost before it had begun to breathe" p. 7-8.
299 Stigand, C.H. HUNTING THE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA: and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings; [with an introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt]; [new] introduction and bibliographical note by James A. Casada. Facsimile reprint. Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1989.

xxi, xv, 379 p., [16] leaves of plates: ill., port. as frontis., folding table. (African hunting reprint series; vol. 8). Pict. paper covered boards with gilding, d.w. slightly frayed along top edge. Originally published in 1913. R 500

Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand served in the British Army in West and East Africa, Somalia and Sudan. In his introduction to the original publication, Theodore Roosevelt calls Stigand " a field naturalist of unusual powers". He also notes that the best type of big game hunter tends to note the "natural history and ethnology of the regions… and to make his book less and less a catalogue of mere slaughter". Foreword.
300 Wolhuter, Harry. MEMORIES OF A GAME-RANGER; illustrations by C.T. Astley-Maberley. 1st ed. Johannesburg: Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa, December 1948.

313 p., [15] leaves of plates: ill., port. as frontis., map as endpapers. Pict. cloth with gilding, scarred. R 600

Wolhuter was born in Beaufort West in 1877, but his family moved to the Lowveld in the 1890s. In 1902, after a period with Steinacker's Horse during the SA War, he became one of Stevenson-Hamilton's original game rangers in what was to become known as the Kruger National Park. Having served as a ranger for forty-four years, his memoirs contain a rich fund of game stories and has become a South African classic.
301 Yeoman, Guy. THE QUEST FOR THE SECRET NILE: Victorian exploration in Equatorial Africa, 1857-1900. London: Chaucer Press, 2004.

192 p.: col. ill., ports., col. maps. 4to. Paper covered boards, d.w. R 200