TTIF. P.IG GAMIC OF Al^RICA 



by relatives and friends at home. Beautiful walking sticks 

 and riding whips, as well as table tops, which look very 

 much like polished agate, can be made from the skins of 

 rhinos and hippos, and I have even seen most beautifully 

 made bowls and card receivers pressed out of the skins of 

 these pachyderms. 



Each sportsman should feel that he is not only out in the 

 wilderness for the sake of his own recreation and pleasure, 

 but also for the sake of serving science and humanity at 

 large. For, even in our enlightened day, it is quite pos- 

 sible to discover new species of animals, as has been 

 my good fortune on several occasions, and also to enrich 

 the interesting and profitable knowledge of natural history 

 by the experiences in the jungles. Not only is it our duty 

 and pleasure as sportsmen to make careful observations 

 of the life of the big-game animals, to preserve them and 

 the record of their habits by the use of photography, and 

 by the careful preservation of the hunting trophies for 

 ourselves and our contemporaries, but we ought to do this 

 also for the benefit of coming generations, who will prob- 

 ably not be able to find much big game in any part of the 

 world. 



