Name ID 683
See also
Turner, Kay Serengeti Home
Page Number: 019a
Extract Date: 1913
The Rediscovered Country (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1915)
Stewart Edward White, an American Hunter, crossed from the Great Rift Valley via Loliondo to Lobo Springs.
In a book called The Rediscovered Country (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1915), he described the Serengeti as
'the haunt of swarms of game' and, added,
'in this beautiful, wide, populous country, no sportsman's rifle has ever been fired.'
White moved among
'those hordes of unsophisticated beasts as a lord of Eden would have moved,'
See also
Turner, Myles My Serengeti Years
Page Number: 028
Extract Date: 1913
The first really detailed account of what is now the northern extension of the Serengeti was written by Stewart Edward White, the America hunter. White was determined to penetrate westward beyond the Loita range, and in 1913, accompanied by A.J.Cunningham, another well known hunter, he set out from Nairobi with thirty porters and twenty donkeys
See also
Turner, Myles My Serengeti Years
Page Number: 031
Extract Date: 1913
It is interesting to note from the account of White's safari how scarce buffalo were in what is now the parks's buffalo country. Possibly they had not yet recovered from the great rinderpest plague of 1897. For when I left in 1972 annual counts had established a population of at least 70,000 buffalo.
The complete absence of elephant is also interesting.
See also
Schaller, George, B. Serengeti: A Kingdom of Predators
Page Number: 11
Extract Date: 1913
. . . And the view described by Stewart White in 1913 in what is now the northern part of the park still exists today: "Never have I seen anything like that game. It covered every hill, standing in the openings, strolling in and out among groves, feeding on the bottom lands, singly, or in little groups. It did not matter in which direction I looked, there it was; as abundant one place as another"
See also
Amin, Mohamed; Willetts, Duncan and Marshall, Peter Journey Through Tanzania
Page Number: 130
Extract Date: 1913
The Serengeti's first European hunters arrived in 1913. S. E. White and R.J. Cunningham organised a safari and found the wildlife plentiful, especially the lions, although they saw no elephants.
See also
White, Stewart Edward The Rediscovered Country
Page Number: 115
Extract Date: 20 August 1913
Never have I seen anything like that game. It covered every hill, standing in the openings, strolling in and out among the groves, feeding on the bottom lands, singly, or in little groups. It did not matter in which direction I looked, there it was; as abundant one place as another. Nor did it matter how far I went, over how many hills I walked, how many wide prospects I examined, it was always the same. During my stay at the next two camps I looked over fifty square miles. One day I counted 4,628 head! And suddenly I realized again that in this beautiful, wide, populous country, no sportsman's rifle has ever been fired. It is a virgin game country, and I have been the last man who will ever discover one for the sportsmen of the world. There is no other available possibility for such a game field in Africa unexplored. I moved among those hordes of unsophisticated beasts as a lord of Eden would have moved.
See also
Turner, Myles My Serengeti Years
Page Number: 029
Extract Date: 1913
White made camp three miles downstream from the source of the Bolonja Spring, and his description of this area, the finest in the Serengeti, is worth quoting:
see Myles" book p29 for the quotation
See also
Turner, Kay Serengeti Home
Page Number: 019b
Extract Date: 1920's
Leslie Simpson, an American hunter, reached Seronora from the north and returned five years later with Stewart Edward White and two other friends. Within three months they had shot fifty-one lions in the Seronera area.
Turner, Myles My Serengeti Years
Page Number: 033c
Extract Date: 1925
In April and May 1925 Simpson brought Stewart Edward White and two friends along this route [to Seronera], and built a semi-permanent camp somewhere near the spot where the popular Seronera Wildlife Lodge now stands.
See also
Trzebinski, Errol Silence Will Speak
Extract Author: Walt Whitman
Page Number: 352
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained.
I stand a look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth,
So they show their relations to me, and I accept them
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
Also quoted by Stewart White, with slightly different words.
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained.
I stand a look at them sometimes half a day long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable and industrious over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me, and I accept them plainly in their possession.