{"product_id":"2940014313643","title":"Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands","description":"Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang, New Edition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: “The Bengali hurled the canful at his head.”\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Emigrants\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Said Mohammed, Failed B.A.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. In a Game-Pit\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: PART OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. White Man’s Magic\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: “One of the Wakamba slipped off when he was in midstream.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Juma takes to the Bush\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Raided by Lions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. John runs the Farm\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Hard Pressed\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. A Rearguard Fight\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Driving Sheep to Market\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Rhinoceros and Lions\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: “Ferrier raised his rifle, and brought him down with a bullet through the heart.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Sack of the Farm\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Tracking the Raiders\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Ferrier Insists\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. A Coup de Main\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Juma is Reinforced\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: The Pool\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. John’s Letter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. An Attack in Force\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Trapped\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: “The hippo gave a snort, and the water around him was agitated as by an immense churn.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Shooting the Rapids\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. A Combined Assault\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. A Counter Stroke\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. The Ivory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. Ferrier takes the Lead\u003cbr\u003eIllustration: “John ordered his askaris to fire among the negroes on the left bank.”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25. The Fight in the Swamp\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26. Back to the Farm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003eThe present story completes a series of three books in which I have endeavoured to give impressions of life in the immense region known as Equatorial Africa. The scene of Tom Burnaby was laid in the centre, around the great lakes; Sambawas concerned with the western or Congo districts; Settlers and Scouts is a story of the east, more especially the magnificent highland region which seems destined to become one of the greatest provinces of the British African Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe steady stream of emigration already flowing to British East Africa is bound to swell when it is more generally recognized that in the hill districts of Kenya, Naivasha, and Kisumu there are vast areas of agricultural land constituting an ideal “white man’s country.” In the following pages I have attempted to show some of the conditions under which the pioneers of emigration must work. The development of communications and the settlement of the remoter regions will soon relegate such alarums and excursions as are here described to the romantic possibilities of the past. But it will be long before the lion, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus and other more or less formidable neighbours cease to be factors with which the emigrant has to reckon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor many facts, stranger by far than fiction, concerning the wild inhabitants, human and other, of this most interesting region, I am indebted to Mr. Arkell-Hardwick’s An Ivory Trader in North Kenya and Colonel Patterson’s Man-Eaters of Tsavo, among several important works that have appeared during recent years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt may be added that in the spelling of native names I have sometimes rather consulted the reader’s convenience than conformed strictly to rule. The name Wanderobbo, for instance, applied to an individual, is a solecism, the prefix Wa being a sign of the plural. But it seemed better to err than to afflict the reader with so uncouth a form as N’derobbo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHERBERT STRANG.","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083672109296,"sku":"2940014313643","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014313643_p0.jpg?v=1763605713","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014313643","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}