322 TO THE UASIN GISHU [ch. xii 



in the Nairobi JNlunicipality Pound Book under date of 

 August 6, 1909. In the column headed " Description 

 of Animal "' is the entry, •' 1 zebra " ; under the heading 

 " By whom impounded " is the entry, " Major Smith, 

 R.E." ; under the heading " Remarks '" is the entry, 

 " Sold by Public Auctioneers, Raphael & Coy., on 

 24/1/09." 



We had with us several recent books on East African 

 big game : Chapman's " On Safari," dealing alike witli 

 the hunting and the natural history of big game ; 

 Powell Cotton's accounts of his notew^ortliy experiences 

 both in hunting and in bold exploration ; Stigand's 

 capital studies of the spoor and habits of big game (it is 

 to be regretted that he was too modest to narrate some 

 of his own really extraordinary adventures in the chase 

 of dangerous beasts) ; and Buxton's account of his two 

 African trips. Edward North Buxton's books ought 

 to be in the hands of every hunter everywhere, and 

 especially of every young hunter, because they teach 

 just the right way in which to look at the sport. With 

 Buxton big-game hunting is not a business, but a pas- 

 time, not allowed to become a mania or in any way to 

 interfere with the serious occupations of life, whether 

 public or private ; and yet as he carried it on it is much 

 more than a mere pastime — it is a craft, a piu'suit of 

 value, in exercising and developing hardihood of body 

 and the virile courage and resolution which necessarily 

 lie at the base of every strong and manly character. 

 He has not a touch of the game butcher in him ; nor 

 has he a touch of that craving for ease and luxury the 

 indulgence in which turns any sport into a sham and 

 a laughing-stock. Big-game hunting, pursued as he has 

 pursued it, stands at the opposite pole from those so- 

 called sports carried on primarily either as money-making 



