Took the podcast down a little sidetrail to talk about Johannes Lodewikus Lee, who shot himself a small fortune as an elephant hunter in the kingdom of the Ndebele in the 1860s and ’70s.
The wayward old fellow loved many women — poorly — and sired a big brood of bush-wild children, who lived in a rambling stone castle in the middle of the bush in what’s now Zimbabwe. A more wayward feller you’d be hard-pressed to find, but I have a soft spot for such characters.
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Johannes Lodewikus Lee. In his day, he was a remarkable character, indeed.
Matthew says
I have a problem with this podcast. It’s too short for such a fascinating character! I have to wonder why he was successful when so many hunters seem not to be.
Look forward to Burnham. I read Splendid Savage before Covid.