Mackinaw coat a short, double-breasted coat of heavy, plaid woolen material.
Mannlicher an expensive German hunting rifle.
marc a kind of brandy.
Martin Johnson an American hunter and motion picture producer who made many films about big game hunts.
Mathiaga Club a big game hunters club in Nairobi, Kenya. White hunters are professional hunters/guides who arrange and accompany clients on big game hunts, or safaris.
McGraw John J. McCraw, manager of the New York Giants.
Memsahib "Lady" in Swahili; a title of respect derived from a Hindu word.
Memsahib a Hindustani word meaning "lady."
milt fish sperm, along with seminal fluid.
mosquito bar a net on a bar hung over a cot to keep out insects, particularly mosquitoes.
mosquito boots loose boots into which trousers are tucked.
mustard gas an oily, highly flammable liquid; it was used during World War I as a chemical weapon.
muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun the firing end of the gun.
Nairobi the capital of Kenya.
Nansen Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1938), Norwegian Arctic explorer, scientist, statesman, and humanitarian. During the period that Hemingway was writing this story, Nansen was high commissioner of refugees for the League of Nations.
odor Gangrene is literally a putrefaction, emitting a horrible, rotten stench.
offal intestines or waste parts of butchered fish.
