""As I could see lions within what looked like biting distance, I started blasting away with the .308. Lately I've been reading through the series by C.J. He's been living in the long grass for about six months. Please try again. As I left in the hunting car to take Silent to the small dispensary some seventy-five miles away, I warned the headman that if anyone so much as disturbed a whisker of the lion for. Finally, we stopped and, checking the wind, swung in a wide arc to bring us as close as possible to the shrub yet offer us maximum visibility under the difficult circumstances.Finally, we came up to the thorn bush and, the three armed men leading the trackers and gunbearers, sneaked up on it. As if brain-shot he instantly collapsed as the edge of the blade found and severed the spinal chord, killing him at once. Capstick started writing about his adventures in the late 1960s and published numerous articles in various sporting magazines. This is easily the best of Capstick's books and the one that I can't resist going back to. The man fell backward onto the ground, and the lioness immediately launched herself through the window after him, landing on his prostrate body.Although barely conscious, Willy De Beer had the presence of mind to try to cover his mutilated head with his hands, a feat he accomplished just as the man-eater grabbed his head in her jaws and started to drag him away. ""It didn't take long to find out about the disturbance. Inspection establishes that the lioness is in the prime of life and previously uninjured or disabled although very lean and, with macabre obviousness, hungry. By the time dawn lightened the sky there was little left, but still plenty to interest the hyena. "Before De Beer could answer, Matthews gave another scream, which mixed with a grunt from the dying lioness. I finally decided, after locking eyes with her for at least six months, that I would prefer the devil I didn't know to the one lying there watching me like a butcher reading a cuts chart. The soft breeze brought me the same unmistakable odor of a house cat on a humid day. St. Martin's Press, 1978-01-15. Minimal signs of wear. Simply superb. Less than an hour later we were boiling through the growing heat and billowing dust to the village of Kampisi.Kampisi looked like most in Zambia's Eastern Province--shabbyand dusty with a ragtag collection of snarling curs and tired-looking people, hordes of spindle-legged children who would not reach puberty. I bought Capstick's "Death in the Long Grass." My first Africa Safari-type book. Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush Hardcover - Illustrated, 15 Jan. 1978 by Peter Hathaway Capstick (Author) 992 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 10.44 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 21.11 5 Used from 17.00 6 New from 20.92 Mass Market Paperback 20.00 3 Used from 20.00 After leaving Wall Street, the New Jersey native hunted in Central and South America before going to Africa, where he held pro hunting licenses in Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). They may be the offspring of maneating parents, weaned on human flesh and taught to hunt man as a normal activity. If they have less apprehension about the scent of man through familiarity, I feel they are more likely to attack. Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. There has always been something of a controversy about the pain experienced, some maulees claiming that there is little pain, mostly a dreamlike sensation caused by shock, others that the bite of a lion is extremely painful. Lions are not at all above scavenging and take to moderately decomposed carrion quite nicely, thanks very much. As opposed to leopard baiting, where the object is to actually kill the animal over the offering, the use of baits for lion serves mainly to draw a lion to an area and hold him so he can be followed up for a shot. But he'll settle for a cold beer as long as he has his smokes. My heart hit the top of my skull as she growled and dashed almost past me to disappear into the grass. I thought you might be able to help me out. Finally, he calmed down enough to tell us what had happened.He had awakened when his wife stirred to a call of nature. There was no way I could possibly make it the seventy-five yards back to the rifle. There were the usual bushveldt sounds of insects, the wet swirls of catfish and crocs on the river, the honking of hippos and the sleepy chatter of insomniac baboons in the grove of fever trees over the ridge. Inside the travel-dented locker lie three flat five-packs of Kynoch 300-grain soft-point cartridges for the battered, silver-worn, old rifle, a Cogswell and Harrison, .375 Holland and Holland Magnum in caliber. Entering the green tangle, Silent moved just ahead of me in a low crouch, his eyes on the spoor and his spear held in front of his body like a lance. Our safari crew was scared white, but none of the big cats showed any aggressiveness and eventually melted off into the night. 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. With my heightened senses, I could now hear the animal padding through the soft dirt outside the hut, looking for a weak point. 56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Death in the Long Grass. May contain highlighting and or writing. De Beer, completely blind and helpless, could only scream as the lioness ate him alive.Ten feet away, petrified with terror, Colin Matthews stood watching the cat ravage his father-in-law. They stuck around for almost an hour, probably attracted by the odor of our hung meat, a fringe-eared oryx I had shot that afternoon. His friends will later decide that even if he had the rifle now he would still have less than one minute to live.Fifty yards from Hankin's tent, in the shadowy skeleton of a fallen. and bearing the cartouche of Amenhotep III, progenitor of Ikhnaton, or Amenhotep IV, which records his killing 102"fierce-looking" lions during the first decade of his phar-aohship. It was still breathing. It's the same reason that FloridaChambers of Commerce don't go out of their way to spread the word of shark attacks along their beaches. The lion immediately swarmed over her upper body and, with a crush of fangs, dragged her quickly off.I looked at my wristwatch. Nobody had any interest whatever in coming down until we found out what 'gave' with those lions. . Actually, before Cornon left, a group of nomads came to camp adjacent to us, so we had quite a gathering. He comes across as a rather bad boy of the English gentry. Book Description 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 of one of the most renowned . People were climbing on top of trucks, scaling trees and shouting in terror. Yet. Curiously, there have been many cases of lions actually stepping over one man to pick another, like a bored matron at the canape platter of a cocktail party. Still, we had our best shot at him yet.We took up the trail at half-past five as the false dawn began to turn the trees into gnarled monsters. A classic example took place at the close of the last century when no less a power than the empire of Queen Victoria was thwarted in its imperial designs by eight man-eaters who halted construction of the so called Lunatic Express, the Uganda Railroad, as it passed through south-east Kenya. At the same time, a book which is 5 years old, and still in the top 50k most of the time - that's a book doing really well. One day, with a client from Philadelphia, we shot a very fine male lion at about ten yards after tracking him off the carcass of a wildebeest for three hours. One big slug had taken him from below at a slight angle, punching a cantaloupe-sized hole through his chest that broke his off-shoulder into atoms, the other just creasing his side in a long, red welt that cut the short hair of his flank like a barber's razor. Free shipping for many products! Perhaps covering his head was a conscious gesture, perhaps reflex. Many of them, at one time or another, were severely mauled or killed through failure of their primitive arms or foolhardy pursuit of wounded lions. Roger. Operating in a photographic safari area, professional hunter Peter Hankin has had to leave it at his hunting camp, Chitangulu, forty miles downstream. But he is an American who attended the University of Virginia! Bending down, I defined the clear pugmark of a big, male lion. 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. Coming up, he shouted and yelled at the lion to draw its attention and blew the cat's head into pudding with his own .458. The Man-eaters of Tsavo treated the project as one extended buffet table, their accomplishment having been to have eaten more imported Indian coolies than it took to film. Although I was tired, sleep came fitfully; possibly the ever-nearing roar of those lions helped keep my mind occupied. I had tried hunting lion in this cover before, harrying them through the jungles of waxy, green, , a dense, house-high shrub that grows like a beach umbrella with the handle cut off, in hope of getting my clients a quick shot as the cats crossed the open channels between the heavier clumps. It was an interesting few minutes. I have seen the, in the British Museum, dating from approximately 1400 B.C. I've read "Death in the Dark Continent" and "Death in the Tall Grass," myself and loved them.Thanks to this thread,I too am inspired to "dig" them out again!It's been years since I read them one cold,snow filled winter. and 800 lions from my chariot." The bare, beaten earth outside the hut was empty. I stopped and fingered it. Dilated wide to gather the pale light, two hard, amber eyes flicker across the broken ground and lock on the indistinct form of the man sleeping behind the netting. Colin! As the thousand grains of lead tore through the roof (happily without setting fire to it withmuzzle blast), there was a tremendous roar that blended with the twin crash of the shots. In the beam of the light was clear evidence of a scuffle, the smooth earth torn by striations of long claw marks. On the anniversary of Watan's death, some people went up to the mountain to lay flowers, complaining that the city government hadn't held any commemorative activities, that there were mounds of dirt and weeds in the park that hadn't been cleaned up . This is one of the first world tar has made more want to travel to Africa myself! Rather than risk spooking whatever it might be, I continued another half-mile down the road before stopping. Only now did I realize how close I had come to being the Chabunkwa lion's eleventh victim. A deep, warning snarl cut the thin light of the naked bulb outside the hut and De Beer cursed. I reached for a pencil and pad. Reaching their campsite, Cornonhad some mechanical difficulty with the truck that hauled provisions, tentage, and such. That night, back in my own camp, I took a long bath and sat smoking in the tub, with a tall glass of man's best friend at my elbow. Since the previous year had been a record one for heavy rainfall, much of the grass was twelve to fourteen feet tall and offered the visibility of minestrone soup. "Le Xin Watan Memorial Park" located on Roman Highway, Fuxing District, Taoyuan City, was built in 2017. By the time I'd finished the first chapter of his first book, Death in the Long Grass, it seemed perfectly reasonable to me to abandon my burgeoning career as Capstick had and try my hand as a professional hunter as Capstick did. I am not a hunter, nor have I any interest in hunting. I looked out and saw the world's biggest lion walking past my cot, growling in that low, gutteral tone they apparently use to scare things. The millet and sorghum beer the tribes brew and drink keeps fermenting in their stomachs until the celebrants pass into a comatose sleep wherever they happen to lie down. The movie "Ghost and the Darkness" is one of my very favorite of all. Subjects Big game hunting, Hunting, africa. For amoment she hesitates, but her ancestral fear of the smell is washed over by the desperation of her hunger. I dropped the drink, clapped my hands as loud as I could, and screamed a very unprintable phrase, tensed for that long fall to the water if she took it unkindly. become man-eaters. In 1969 on the Luangwa I was sharing a hut with Brian Smith, a young professional hunter, in Mwangwalala camp, which was located about 150 yards from the main camp used by the clients. At very least, it was quite a first night on safari for Johnnie Cox. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. The Aboriginal use of long grass spaces contravenes NT laws. It was hard, dangerous hunting that I had quit rather than risk a client's being chewed up. Quivering with adrenalin we listened to it growling ferociously thirty yards in the cover.I led the men back a few yards to have a cigarette and hoped the bloody thing would die before I had to go in and drag it out. Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2022. I'll leave in an hour. Good author, well written, good accounts, shows reality of wild animals. 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. In addition to writing about hunting, he was also featured in an award-winning safari video and audio tapes. Two months after the attack his head was still swollen twice the normal size, and he continued to suffer from dizziness and ringing in the ears. Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Death in the Long Grass are 9781466803923, 1466803924 and the print ISBNs are 9780312186135, 0312186134. Everything was in the lion's favor in this growth, and I hadn't kidded myself that the man-eater had left it. His writing style remains undated, as readable as a tabloid newspaper and as exciting as any Forsyth thriller. Colin Matthews has had many operations on his hand, but it is not expected to be of much use to him again. It was a hollow, senseless howl that I recognized as Silent. Slowly, and I do not misuse the word, I eased a step back. This is not a book for the squeamish but it remains essential reading for anyone planning to visit Africa with a camera or a rifle. Reprinted by permission. When you pick up a rifle and take the first step on a lion hunt, you know that you are taking a fair chance of being maimed or killed. Highly recced! Frantically, I tried to locate the lion, but his roars drowned everything out, a solid vortex of impossible sound saturating the hut. ! you have a budding, new man-eater. Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466803924 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 320 Download Book. I stiffened against the feel of long fangs that would be along presently, burying themselves in my shoulder or neck, and thought about how nice and quick it would probably be. Although injured carnivores who cannot fend for themselves in a normal hunting manner may, indeed, turn to sneaking a native or two between meals, most people-preying lions are generally healthy, sleek, and often oversized specimens more than fit to pursue their normal food. 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. Yet, the lions paid them no appreciable interest. Box about a Wyoming game warden. At any rate, lions certainly have a creditable record for killing the famous. Shall I give you a radio sched at eight tonight to see if anything's new? I have never seen his like since.I am indebted to John W. Cox, my good friend and a noted sportsman, once the owner of such larger-than-a-breadbox items as Yankee Stadium, for permission to print an account of his adventures one dark night in the 1950s in Chad. Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has known it -- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016. Colin could have easily shot the man-eater, but he did not. Something gleamed on the dark earth, which I recognized as Silent's spear, the shaftbroken halfway. I aimed carefully and paid the insurance on the first one.Although nothing to write home about in the mane department, these two were extremely large and heavy lions, probably about 500 pounds, and in their prime. All indications are that the end is far from near.One of the most consistant danger points of this area is the Luangwa Valley of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), a northern tributary of the Zambezi and one of the better hunting grounds of Africa. Also, there is the small consideration that he probably won't be alone. My client was doing everything right except for one minor item: he had forgotten to pull the trigger. The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. But then, what do they have to fear?I don't know what awakened me a few hours later--perhaps a sound I didn't remember hearing, but more likely that sixth sense of apprehension. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. The first shot fired by De Beer had caught her in the lungs, the second in the shoulder, and the third, traveling at a muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet per second, pierced the cat's right cheek, completely smashed Colin's hand and knuckles, which were inside the lioness' mouth, and then passed harmlessly through the left cheek. He seems to love big, powerful guns/rifles/shotguns, but a close second favorite of his is a round (or three) of "sundowners", hefty glasses of scotch/whiskey/good, really good wine. This time the lioness was ready and waiting for him. Quantity: 1 Add to Basket Hardcover. I grabbedthe rifle and electric torch, pulled the thorn fence away, and dashed barefoot toward the screams. Deciding that repair was imperative, Cornon elected to drive back through the night for spare parts. After all, fried chicken anyone? Captstick settled in Pretoria, South Africa with his wife Fiona until his death at age 56. Three more unearthly screams followed. Hard to put the book down. She stifles an involuntary growl, her black upper lip curled back to show thick, long fangs. It's impossible to hunt and track at the same time. Beautiful stories and vivid descriptions. I was certain the lion could not miss the thump-crash of my heart as it jammed into the bottom of my throat in a choking lump, my mouth full of copper sulphate. ${cardName} unavailable for quantities greater than ${maxQuantity}. Africa has no patience with careless hunters. There was no point in continuing to follow the cold trail since darkness was only an hour off and we both knew the most heavily armed man is no match for a lion's stealth at night.Arriving back at Kampisi about dark, I had two hours to kill before my radio schedule with the D.C. Jaguar, yes. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Death in the Long Grass : A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush by Peter Hathaway Capstick (1978, Hardcover, Revised edition) at the best online prices at eBay! The Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush book is in average demand now as the rank for the book is 35,593 at the moment. Also, the anatomy of a lion is such that he has no skull above the eyebrows, usually just a mass of fatty tissue and mane. Actually, I had it salted and presented it to Silent, who believed that sleeping on it would bring back much of the romance of his youth. As the professional, Paul was obliged to earn his $25 per day salary by following the lion and killing it. Where was the ammunition? I lit a cigarette from the flat thirty-pack of Matinees. A murmur of voices arising from somewhere in our camp indicated that I was not alone in my apprehension. Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023. sermon | 134 views, 2 likes, 1 loves, 14 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Peace Missionary Baptist Church - Durham, NC: Reverend Dr. D.. Certainly early man confronted him in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, and the tradition of lion hunting as one of the most respected pastimes continued well into the earliest civilizations, which have left us records of early hunts.Many of the first advanced cultures' monarchs must have concentrated a great deal of their time on perforating lions for fun and profit. Lions are hunted for the same reason people skydive, race cars, or, in extreme cases, play Russian roulette. classic big game animal. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the worldunderrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. In addition to writing about hunting, he was also featured in an award-winning safari video and audio tapes. As he fought with the little Parker-Hale to make it fire, the incredible, unbelievable,unthinkable happened: Colin Matthews put his foot into a galvanized bucket hidden in the shadows, lost his balance, and fell, dropping the precious rifle.The lioness looked up, her bloody mouth twisted into a snarl. I think I fell asleep on the couch about 1am. The Chabunkwa man-eater was dead.Ripping off my belt, I placed a tourniquet on Silent's tattered arm. 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. Flattened to the ground, he crept across the open space between two huts and froze into tawny stone as he saw the three huddled forms in the shadows against the side of a hut, near the dying embers of a small fire. But if you blow it, it may cost many dozens of lives before you have another chance.Just as he does when hunting zebra or wildebeest, a lion, having chosen a victim, will usually stick with his choice, no matter how many other animals pass within easier reach. It's been written by someone who knows more than most about the subject having spent decades there. As the title says, this book is all about dying and in particular, how Africa tries to do that to you. ""What remained of the night, I spent firing at lion noises in the grass with the .308. Over. Most of her frontal lower teeth were missing, but she stillmanaged to gum fourteen Galla tribesmen with quite definitive results.Possibly, the practice of the early explorers to consider all man-eaters as "mangy brutes" is better rooted in psychology than fact. I had just poured a sun-downer and, armed with nothing more formidable than a fly switch, walked through the half-light down the path along the river separating the camps. Some damage to the cover sleeve. You may blow a hole in his heart big enough to accommodate a navel orange, but in his condition of hyperadrenia, there will still be enough oxygen in his brain to carry his charge for a surprising distance and enough moxie left over to turn you into something that would give a hyena the dry heaves. Death in the long grass by Capstick, Peter Hathaway. I had a client in Zambia once, who shall go unnamed, who had a great chance at a lion that was very well known in the area, a tremendous black-maned monster called the Mwangwalala lion. Armando Bassi, hearing the mauling, jumped out of his tree and ran blindly after Paul. I beckoned to the remaining grounded tracker to go with me out into that black, high grass where all those lions were loitering. He was later trapped and, after being displayed, shot.Although there is virtually no area in Africa that has not recorded a degree of man-eating activity, some localities are historically much more dangerous than others. Human nature being what it is, Homo sapiens are somehow loathe to entertain the thought that any mere animal would possibly want to eat them for food. The soft snapping of Silent's fingers attracted my attention back outside the hut. He recoiled in terror as he saw the lion pulling her by the leg until she was suspended off the ground between his mouth and the door frame. Some of these items ship sooner than the others. A "big" bite in the thoracic region by a lion is almost sure death, but victims caught by a shoulder or leg can live a long time in the most unspeakable horror and agony. If you're remotely interested in wildlife, Africa or adventure, you simply MUST read this book. I think, considering the number of lions killed, that the pharaohs' personal bodyguards must have formed quite a rank, or surely, inevitably, a wounded lion would have caught up with somebody's royal hindside.Tiglathpileser I, a Middle Eastern monarch in a later time slot, is recorded to have made Amenhotep III look like a beginner by smiting "120 brave-hearted lions in heroic battles on foot [I'll bet!] Unfortunately, her heroism was for naught since the man died shortly from his wounds. 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. Interested in flipbooks about (PDF BOOK) Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush full? My only complaint is that it's not 4 times longer. ""No one had been bitten. Almost without exception, until the publication of Patterson's book on the Tsavo lions in 1907, man-eaters were traditionally reported to be poor, broken-down, tooth-worn, crippled "brutes" who ate people for a living only because they had been injured by nasty hunters, porcupine quills, and the like. "Right, Cyril," I answered. An inch or so higher or lower would have broken either her upper or lower jaw and prevented her from snapping off Colin's kneecap a few seconds later. We might be able to stalk him while he was actually eating his kill or intercept him on his way to water before he went to lie up for the hot hours. Death In The Long Grass. The killing of a lion seems to excite Africans more than any other species, and this was no exception. As Johnnie Cox tells it:"We would miss him, but, after all, we were well ensconced at our water hole. By the sounds, the lioness was standing over Colin's body. Still, I knew that there had been cases of lions killing as frequently as twice the same night and that, anyway, man-eaters have an uncanny way of showing up where least expected. ${cardName} not available for the seller you chose. Today (April 17) coincides with Lexin. In East Africa there are several cases recorded of a lion eating his victim within the sight of paralyzed onlookers.I still get the old flutter-guts when I recall the night in Ngamiland, Botswana, in 1970 when I was sharing a tent with Daryll Dandridge, a fellow professional hunter at the time with Ker, Downey, and Selby Safaris, Ltd. Our campwas pitched hard on the edges of the Okavango Swamp, and, the night being warm, we had not zipped the ends of the tent closed. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. If you can catch him the first time and make an effective shot, you will end his career right there. This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. 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. Anatomically unequiped, as was he, to perform the function through the door, she had stepped out into the night, and the lion had immediately nailed her. A parallel may be found in the case of the new mother who awakes instantly at her infant's faintest cry. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2007. scary stuff. Capstick writes with absolute authority on an Africa which is rapidly receding into the past. He never made a sound as I tended him, nor did I speak. 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