Big Game Shooting 



on this part of the world to be had, without going 

 to the trouble of buying a big, heavy volume, 

 which gives, besides the animals one wants, 

 forty thousand other kinds as well that one never 

 meets here. The country is so gaining in popu- 

 larity every day that it is often impossible to ob- 

 tain porters for Government purposes, at certain 

 favourite times for shooting-parties, in Nairobi, 

 on account of the numbers of sportsmen in the 

 country who have snapped them up. 



Secondly, someof the photographs are good like- 

 nesses of the various animals depicted. A photo- 

 graph cannot lie when a picture is taken in the 

 jungle ; at any rate I know that my five by four 

 Kodak doesn't. I have had to borrow some films 

 from my friends, as I stupidly used to forget my 

 camera on occasions at first, and I take this oppor- 

 tunity of expressing my thanks for their kindness. 



East Africa is a paradise in more than one 

 sense of the word. The quantity of game in 

 certain parts, easily get-at-able, is absurd. I re- 

 member when in Somaliland, before I came here, 

 hearing fellows talking about the amount of game 

 one could see in a day from the windows of the 

 comfortable carriages on the Uganda Railway, 

 which passes through the heart of the game 

 country. I said little, but thought every time, 

 "All men are liars." All I can now say is, if 

 you don't believe it go there and see for yourself, 

 and you will be badly startled. 



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