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    Native Trackers - A Collection of Articles on the Skills of African and Native American Trackers
    Native Trackers - A Collection of Articles on the Skills of African and Native American Trackers
    Native Trackers - A Collection of Articles on the Skills of African and Native American Trackers
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    Native Trackers - A Collection of Articles on the Skills of African and Native American Trackers

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    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 12, 2016
    ISBN9781473357105
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      Native Trackers - A Collection of Articles on the Skills of African and Native American Trackers - Read Books Ltd.

      NATIVE TRACKERS

      As it seldom falls to the lot of the white man in Africa to find an instructor of his own colour, he generally has to pick up a knowledge of bushcraft through long, and sometimes bitter, experience, with the help of the natives he is amongst. As the latter are seldom able to impart the information they possess, he must needs learn from them by observation and deduction. Some white men appear to have not only picked up what bush-craft they know from contact with natives, but also their sporting code from the same source. All is grist to the native mill, and he generally tries to entice his master into indiscriminate and senseless slaughter. He has no idea of the sporting instinct, as we know it, and only hunts with the idea of getting unlimited meat.

      In tracking, however, he is often very proficient, but different tribes and different natives vary enormously in this respect, and it makes a great difference to the sportsman what sort of natives he first gets hold of.

      There was an old man who engaged himself to me as a tracker in my early days, whose methods puzzled me for a long time. On finding a track he used generally to follow it back a few hundred yards and then branch off at right angles to it. It was only after he had been with me a month that I discovered his actions were not instigated by reasons so subtle that they were incomprehensible, but that he was an absolute duffer.

      In British East Africa there appears to be an utter dearth of trackers. During three years of trekking in the country and constantly trying new natives, I never hit on a single one who was any use whatever. Even men who lived by hunting were nothing wonderful in their own forests, whilst once they left these they were perfectly useless. The latter, though, have one great point to commend them, and it is that they hunt in silence. They refrain from talking loudly and tread lightly and silently. Many of the best trackers amongst other tribes seem to imagine that all game is stone deaf. Nothing can induce them, as a rule, to keep their mouths shut, and many of them walk clumsily and noisily.

      Often when I have been trekking along with a party of men or porters, I have turned to a boy orderly or gun-bearer and said, Tell them to keep their mouths shut or else there will be no meat for them to-day. The individual so addressed generally turns and yells at the men behind him, expatiating on the virtues of silence at great length, and in a voice sufficiently loud to scare any game for miles round.

      Perhaps it is, however, that each native thinks he himself possesses a soft and gentle voice and that it is only his fellows who are loud and raucous. As the Swahilis say, A baboon sees not his own stern callosities, he only sees those of his fellows.

      I was quietly fishing on the Loangwa River one afternoon when a Puku put his head out of the grass on the opposite bank, and then came down to drink at the river. To see a wild animal drink is a sufficiently rare sight to be worth watching. As a rule, they only drink at night or very early morning. This was in broad daylight, at 3.30 in the afternoon. Fortunately the native tracker with me did not see him at first. When he did he gave a long-drawn Oh! and then an Ah! followed by an Ogwe! all noises

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