Kaskara used to hunt elephant?
 

The passages below are from Samuel White Baker’s The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia 1861. He Details swords, which sound like Kaskaras, while he is in what would later become the Sudan. There is also an illustration of a rhino hunt with swords that look like Kaskaras and multiple accounts of horseback sword elephant hunts.

“The blade is long and straight, Two-edged, with a simple cross handle, having no other guard for the hand than the plain bar, which at right angles with the hilt forms the cross. I believe this form was adopted after the Crusades, when the long, straight, cross-handled blades of the Christian Knights left an impression behind them that establishedthe fashion. All these blades are manufactured at Solligen, and are exported to Egypt for trade of the interior.”

The Aggageers and the sword hunt

“ They would creep up from behind, and give a tremendous cut at the back sinew of the hind leg, about a foot above the heel. Such a blow would disable the elephant at once…”

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This was discussed here once before: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=elephant

Moderator's Request
 

This can be a "sticky" topic. Let's all please try to keep this civil and objective.

Sorry, I did not mean to open old wounds.

No worries. Here's an excellent thread on kaskara that followed the "Elephant" thread:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=elephant

There is no problem with the topic, which is fascinating & perfectly legitimate fodder for discussion here. The earlier problem was with describing the more lurid details of the hunt, and graphic photographs of modern elephant ... let's say abuse.

I know there is an even earlier thread out there somewhere on this, actually, which was also very good.