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Re: the last mysterys in gun history
25/01/10 09:49 PM

When I mention Almasy here was talking about this topic at home also. My girl friend then order his book”schwimmer in der wüste”( swimmer in the dessert) because it wasn’t in our private library. Because there is only a german edition its maybe for interest of you to notice the small hunting related part.
He has a chapter about the barbary sheep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_sheep in egypt, in years after WW 1 also near to extinction. This subspecies is found again some years ago in egypt iirc.
Hunting this animal there under true dessert condition was pricelees for sportsman.
Almasy friend and protector, the egytian prince kemal el din was 1925 the first time in the uvenat mountains.
the prince was hunting for two weeks and don’t see a single sheep. He was talking with the native’s sheikh about let his mans looking for a good sheep and if they know one’s location send a message to the oasis al kufra
where the post was going to sollum, then with ship to alexandria and to kairo. There wasn’t a conection between this part of the lybian dessert and the nile in this time. Month later the letter arive in kairo that a very good male sheep was found. A letter is going back that the prince will arive in 3 weeks and he will give the tribe 20 camel’s if he can take the trophy and the fur back home.
No doubt this was a true present of a prince in the dessert.
The noble hunter arrive, the long greeting happen and the prince asking when the hunt will start. The sheikh answer: my lord, to follow your command my slave Zukkar have killed the animal this morning on the mountain. You will find the trophy and the fur in my modest home.
The prince was thinking something in the moment but give the 20 camels because this simple mind of sheikh would have never understood what was wrong.
In 1930 when prince kemal told almasy the story and show him the trophy it was the world record for the lybian dessert subspecies. Maybe something reading this have the roland ward book and can look if it’s contain this.

in the sudan, around 1930, two not so bad nil buffalo’s and the suitable way to transport them
see more in” Sudan notes and records “XIII/2 London 1930

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the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	05/12/09 12:17 AM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	Collath_500BPE	16/12/09 01:39 AM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	28/12/09 12:52 AM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	Collath_500BPE	12/01/10 12:21 AM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	12/01/10 03:38 AM
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Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	13/01/10 06:03 AM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	Kiwi_bloke	16/01/10 05:23 PM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	16/01/10 07:19 PM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	25/01/10 09:49 PM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	08/05/10 04:28 PM
Re: the last mysterys in gun history	lancaster	31/05/10 01:14 AM
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Re: the last mysterys in gun history	CptCurl	03/07/10 10:21 PM
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