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According to Brian Herne, in his excellent book WHITE HUNTERS, the name WHITE hunter came about thus:

 

By several reliable accounts it was the chance meeting of hunter Alan Black and a reckless amateur hunter known as “D,” the fiery Lord Delamere, that led to the term, “white hunter”. Delamare had employed the youthful Alan Black to help out on one of his Somaliland safaris in the late 1890s. When Delamere settled in British East Africa he purchased a very large acreage of ranching country. At the time he employed a Somali hunter to shoot meat for his employees, and he also hired Alan Black as a hunter. To differentiate between the two hunters, as well as on account of Black’s surname, the Somali hunter was referred to as the “black hunter”, while Alan Black was always called “the white hunter”, and from this difference, or so the story goes, “white hunter” came into common usage.

 

“Black was, therefore,” according to veteran hunter Donald Ker, of Ker and Downey Safaris, Nairobi, “the first white man to operate in a professional capacity taking out hunting parties for a living.” And, Ker adds, “Black was one of the best that ever lived.”