Adventurers - Lado Enclave - 1909 - 'Dickens and Knowles had had a pretty bad row with the natives and that Dickens had been wounded in the leg by an arrow …'

Adventurers - It was also reported that his [Pickering's] partner, a man named Knowles, had also lost everything. This same Knowles had had a remarkable escape in Uganda, when out with Pickering after elephants. It was his first experience of elephant hunting, and the two of them were charged by a bull. Pickering fired, but failed to stop the animal, while Knowles had no time to fire before it was on them. In trying to get away, he tripped and fell. The elephant tried to kneel on him, but, fortunately for him, only partially succeeded. He managed to roll clear and took refuge in the long grass; whereupon the animal, being unable to see him, broke a large branch from a tree, and proceeded to beat the grass systematically to find him. He failed and Knowles managed to escape; but he was laid up for a considerable time afterwards with his injuries. ................ Knowles, who was a good honest man, a first-class shot, and an excellent hunter, retired to business life at home and died in England.

Uganda Journal - Vol 24, p. 217 - Ivory Poaching in the Lado Enclave by R.O. Collins - …… Two prominent elephant poachers, Pickering and Knowles, were captured by the Congolese who, after confiscating all their equipment, goods and ivory, expelled them from the Enclave. Pickering was later killed by an elephant, while Knowles retired to a business life in England where he died quietly. Chandler - A man named Knowles hunted elephant in the Lado Enclave in 1908, frequently working with Billy Pickering, an experienced hunter, and occasionally with Karamojo Bell.  ……….. According to Akeley (1920) Knowles shot a near-record 54-inch buffalo in Uganda. Knowles took to hunting with a man named Dickens. In 1908 he and Dickens were camped near the Nile north of Lado. They had argued with the local Africans over buying some food, insulting the chief of the tribe. Dickens and Knowles were sitting quietly by the campfire one night when a  shower of arrows rained down on them. Dickens was wounded in the leg, and the 2 hunters barely managed to fight off the attack with their magazine rifles. News of the surprise attack caused mass desertions among the porters working for the Lado hunters.