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GENERAL OUTFIT AND ROUTE OK TRAVEL 



BiG-game hunting, and particularly the pursuing of 

 powerful and dangerous animals, such as the elephant, 

 buffalo, lion, rhinoceros, leopard, with either camera or 

 gun, is certainly one of the most fascinating pastimes the 

 lover of Nature and animal life can have. It not only 

 brings the hunter into the closest touch with the wonder- 

 ful animal creation, but also enables him to enjoy the 

 most varied scenes of Nature. It takes him over seemingly 

 endless plains, with their vast herds of all sorts of game, 

 and into the stillness and majesty of the virgin forest, 

 where the grandest of all game, the elephant, loves to 

 roam. It takes him up to the cool hills and high plateaus 

 with their crystal-clear, rushing mountain streams, as 

 w^ell as to the hot and mosquito-infested lowlands and 

 swamps with their deadly climates. 



The outfit, therefore, of the big-game hunter must of 

 necessity be well chosen, and so carefully selected that 

 with the minimum of bulk he will have the maximum of 

 safety, comfort, and pleasure. On the proper and not too 

 cumbersome outfit depends not only the big-game hunter's 

 comfort, health, safety, and pleasure, but also, to a very 

 large extent, his success. On my first trip to Africa, in 

 1906, I met a man who had gone out to do some big-game 



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