A N.Z. ELEPHANT HUNTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

A N.Z. ELEPHANT HUNTER.

Mr. J. T. Muirhead, a Now Zealander who fought in the Boer war, and thereafter has spent most of his life in Africa, has written a most readable book —"Ivory Poaching and Cannibals in Africa" (Macmillan's). The author is one of those irrepressible ones who cannot stay long in one place, and is only happy when 011 the move, especially in wild places where he is in daily risk of his life. His chief interest was. in hunting elephants and with acquiring tusks— legally or otherwise —for sale as a sideline. His pursuit of this occupation has taken him into some of the wildest and least knowii parts of the great continent, and in the course of long years he acquired a mastery of big game hunting. He has had some hairbreadth escapes from death from elephants, lions, leopards and other beasts, and some equally narrow escapes from being captured by patrols out to stop ivory I poaching—shooting more elephants than ' allowed—whereto to the dangers from , animals is added a zest from unwelcome ' attentions from one's fellows. The story is modestly told, and the sruthor's comments on many matters arising from I life in tropical Africa are most interest- I ing.