Rundgren - Eric Rundgren caught Al Klein, the American white hunter baying a bongo with dogs - illegal - he did nothing.

Drumkey 1909 - General Merchant - Max Klein, Kampala

Land - 1909 - Max Klein - Buildings, 15012.5 sq. ft., Mombasa, 20-11-07, Registered 27-5-09

Land - 1908 - Max Klein - Grazing, 1442 acres, Teemayetti River, 19-12-06, Registered 18-6-08

Into Africa - when James Clark left BEA in 1910, he returned to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he told another man, A.J. Klein, about what he had seen and done. Klein left the museum and came to Nairobi, where he became one of the notable white hunters between the wars.

Land - 1911 - Max Klein - Buildings, 5000 sq.ft. - Homa Bay - 18/10/10 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/11/10 - Registered 7/7/11

Land - 1912 - Max Klein - Buildings, 5000 sq.ft. - Rungwe - 3/7/11 - Leasehold 99 years from 1/9/11 - Registered 12/2/12

Land - 1912 - Max Klein - Buildings, 5000 sq.ft. - Homa Bay - 9/5/11 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/7/11 - Registered 6/3/12

HBEA - 1912 - Advert - Alfred J. Klein - Scientific Taxidermist and Naturalist

Kingsley-Heath - A.L. Klien ? - Gave his name to Klien's Camp in the northern Serengeti. Famous American Professional Hunter of the early days. Founding member of the EAPHA and long-time vice president (1910 to 1939) of same. Died in Nairobi in 1945.

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Alfred Joseph Klein, American, age 63, died 9/5/44

Leader14 - Business Register - Max Klein, General Merchants, Mombasa, Nairobi, Jinja

Chandler - Born in New Jersey, Klein made a name for himself as a white hunter in East Africa. Armand Denis described him as a "small, dapper" man. He worked at the American Museum of Natural History before coming to Africa in the 1900s. Before WW1 he worked for the safari firm of Newland and Tarlton; after the war he worked for Safariland. When Paul Rainey hunted lion with his pack of dogs in 1914, Klein came along to watch the fun. He kept a semi-permanent camp on the edge of the Serengeti, often shared with his compatriot Leslie Simpson. It was to this camp that Denys Finch Hatton came when he was bitten on the leg by a crocodile while guiding Frederick Patterson in 1927. Klein died in Kenya in 1947.

Red Book 1912 - A.J. Klein - Nairobi

Mombasa Times - 13/5/1944 - An Appreciation - The death of Alfred Joseph Klein - known to his multitude of friends as 'Al' - removes from the sporting and social life of Kenya a well-known and much respected figure.

Mr Klein came to this country over 35 years ago, commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History to collect mammals. He had received a thorough training in taxidermy and the cognate arts and was the ideal man for the job - wiry, painstaking and courageous to a degree. Those were the days before the internal combustion engine revolutionised Africa and a man had to be a competent horseman and pretty handy with his guns to survive all the chances and changes that beset pioneers in an untamed country.

Klein was more than a competent horseman; his brother who predeceased him by a few months was a well-known jockey - so evidently it ran in the family. It is not surprising therefore that before long he decided to make this country his own and he joined Paul Rainey's 'circus' when amazing feats - reminiscent of story book cowboys - were performed in lassoing lions and even, I am told, rhino itself. In my more fanciful moments I liked to picture Al, who weighed about nine stone, at one end of a rope with behemoth, which weighs about two tons, at the other!

He was an exhilarating raconteur and used to tell grand stories of those days, couched in the most vivid and graphic language and, like all good stories well told, they did not lose in the telling. As I write I can see that vital and eager figure, with the hooked nose and the flashing eyes, rousing his audience over a sundowner to intense interest and excitement. I always regretted on those occasions that I had not a dictaphone handy to catch his matchless phrases. It is a fact that he was offered large sums to record in writing his experiences, but I think he only once fell to that tempting lure. On the day of his untimely death he was to have addressed the Mombasa Rotary at luncheon and Rotarians will never realise what a verbal feast they missed.

Klein soon became a white hunter but unlike the majority of professionals he was naturalist first and hunter second. By this I mean that he did not use hunting as an adjunct to farming or any other occupation. In this respect he resembled Jacksopn and Cuninghame and a few others. He soon made a name for himself, not only Kenya-wide but world-wide, and he took out some of the most famous people who came to this country - among them the Duke of Gloucester and the Aga Khan.

But this white hunting, as it is called, did not absorb all Al's time. He often felt impelled to return to his old love - taxidermy and collecting. He was closely associated with the work of the famous Carl Akeley and when that great naturalist died finished off his lion group. Of his many other collections must be mentioned the dugong family - that queer creature which is often called the mermaid fish - and he obtained one of his best specimens in Port Reitz creek. He was meticulous about the setting up of his animals in the New York museum and went to infinite pains to collect samples of the soil and the plants which form the background to the habitat of the creatures. These were forwarded to America together with photographs illustrating the type of country in which the collection was made. It is for this reason that the American collections are quite unrivalled in their set-up. Klein was also a pioneer of moving pictures of wild game and Martin Johnson and others owed much to his experience.

To be of Nature and with Nature was what Klein desired. In the lovely grounds of his house at Muthaiga built in the Moorish style, peafowl stalked in all their pride of plumage or made the woods ring with their raucous cries.

Klein was a successful breeder of dachshounds and also a big game fisherman of repute. He rendered valuable assistance to the Kenya Supply Board in the collecting of shark oil two years ago. Later he was employed by the Fish Control at Shimoni, where he establishes that which it is hoped will be a thriving industry. It was in the vicinity of Shimoni that he passed quietly away.

A naturalist and a gentleman, Klein was fortunate in his domestic life. No married couple could have been happier than he and his devoted wife, who accompanied him in many of his safaris in the blue.    .…… Tonight as I write the lions roar in his old hunting grounds in the valleys of southern Horr and on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro rivers; elephants, trumpeting and screaming are approaching the disputed water holes and the old grey buffaloes are emerging from tangle thickets to feed on the lush meadows. These were the sights and sounds that Al loved, and with that requiem we may leave him.

Kwa heri, old friend, and may you rest in peace. - S.V.C. {Shirley Victor Cooke?}

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Alfred J. Klein, Professional Hunter, Box 699, Nbi. And Florence Klein, Box 699, Nbi

Gazette 23 Apr 1946 probate - gives both names

Donald Ker went on safari as second hunter to the late Al Klein.