cover image: Shark fishing, Lumbo, Mozambique, 1918

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Shark fishing, Lumbo, Mozambique, 1918

1918

“Shark fishing was a favourite sport. Here is one caught aboard the boat – at least it was caught in the sea & hauled aboard the boat. Then, after a fortnight of this I got fed-up – too much greasy food and no exercise, & I got a shift to Nairobi, & thence sent to Yala River post in Kavirondo country, N.E. corner of Lake Victoria to medically attend to imaginary repatriated porters. I saw about two in a delightful 1 ½ months holiday.” Portrait of a dead shark. Lt. Irvine was on board the S.S. Salamis in Portuguese East Africa and had stopped over at Lumbo. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya.
fishing sharks game & game birds
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81711
Dates
1918-01/1918-02
Pages
Photographic prints, 6.3 x 10.7 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Lumbo Mozambique Nampula
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Mozambique
Reference
impa-a-nls-97048077-1.tif
Rights
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/47fea1f48bdc2bef8092bc6f4ce811c5

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