Tale Of Tusker, Land Thirst & Hurst’s Hunts In Ngorongoro

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1922 AD, Ruaraka, Kenya.​

George Hurst and his brother Charles Hurst, natives of Cardiff, Wales, established a small beer brewery on the banks of a river on the outskirts of Nairobi named Rui rwa Aka (women’s river), so-called because some land prospectors had earlier tried crossing it but found women bathing at the crossing and had to turn back.

Charles and George Hurst were different sides of the same coin. George, the older one, born in 1878, chose to be a soldier but Charles, two years younger, took after his father and initially worked in the banking sector.

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Fun read. Thanks for posting the link.
 
Really interesting story.Thanks for posting.
J.A. Hunter reports that a Hurst wanted to lease him the crater(a 600m deep bowl of 20 kilometers diameter) as a hunting ground.

The Siedentopf brothers who settled the Ngorongoro from 1904 until the end of World War I were master marksmen (7x57+8x57)). There are many reports about them.
The Massai stole a lot of cattle from them and the Siedentopf brothers shot them in such large numbers, that even the parliament in Berlin was upset.

There are relatives still in Germany. Unfortunately I could not find them, yet.
I would like to see some authentic photos and read their letters from Africa.
But perhaps I still succeed.
 
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