INTRODUCTION 



Good books on hunting trips and adventures in the Dark Con- 

 tinent are plentiful. My only apology for offering to the public 

 The Big Game of Africa is my desire to comply with the wishes of 

 many friends, who, having heard my lectures on Africa, have 

 repeatedly asked me to issue something like them in book form. 



This volume is not only a narrative of my own wanderings and 

 experiences in that continent, but is also intended to be a guide book 

 to those many who are interested in the life and habits of the African 

 game animals as well as in the best way of stalking these with either 

 camera or gun. For in the many good books on hunting in the Dark 

 Continent, little or nothing has been said that may help the would-be 

 African big game hunter in the selection of the proper outfit, guns, 

 cameras, curing materials, etc., nor do they give him any definite 

 information as to where, when and how to secure the game he wants, 

 and none of them contains the most necessary introduction to the 

 Ki-Swahili language, even a slight knowledge of which will prove 

 of immense help to the sportsman when hunting in British East 

 Africa, German East Africa and Uganda. 



This book is the result of my own experiences and observations 

 during three different expeditions to British East Africa, and con- 

 tains the most reliable information I was able to obtain from other 

 sportsmen and professional hunters, as well as from the wild sons 

 of that wonderful game country who, themselves, spend most of 

 their lives roaming around among the Big Game of Africa. 



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