Why did he have to kill so many? Seems wasteful.
“Karamojo” Bell
He was a commercial elephant hunter. He killed them for the ivory, and became quite well off. Enough to buy an estate in Scotland and retire.
Lots of elephant hunters did not make it to retirement. They succumbed to disease, natives, other animal attacks, and of course, to attacks by the elephants they were hunting.
Exactly how many was that...?