I have the feeling a lot of the old time African hunters may not have been all that personable. Especially those pre the client/white hunter era. They were loners that set off into the bush and many may have been "driven" men. Perhaps quite hard to deal with in real life. Someone like Bell I think would be like this. Corbett I think would have been quite shy and definitely a loner. He always expressed wanting to hunt man-eaters alone and often refused to become involved until everyone else was told to clear off. Some of these fellows I am certain would have been real rogues and not want witnesses.

Remember the "winners write the history" and these fellows survived and wrote their own stories, sometimes to criticism at the time.

Their books are still good reads though.

I would have liked to hunt with Harry Manners. He seems to be a good guy in his book and a competent elephant hunter. Sometimes quite humble. I also loved the way he liked good food and wine when in town and described some of the dinners with friends.

Bror Blixen, everyone seemed to like and the ladies love, so definitely the wife does NOT get to join us. Same with Bunny Allen as Mickey said.

Denys Finch-Hatton also seemed to be a very personable "white-hunter" as did his friend Berkeley Cole even though I don't think the later was a PH.

While not a PH, Karen Blixen would have been fantastic to have in camp for her sense of style and her spoken stories. I have been listening to audio tapes of hers recently, including one set of her actually telling the story "The King's Letter".

For the era but maybe not the man, Bell, during his ventures into the Karamojo and facing the "savages" single handed (along with askaris

of course).

Imagine the guts to simply march into a village of blood thirsty killers as once you were in their village, the law of hospitality prevented them from killing you. At least you hoped they were "law-abiding".