PREFACE 



THIS attempt at a book — I would rather 

 call it a series of sketches — is written 

 to try and help young sportsmen who 

 come out to East Africa to find their 

 way round, particularly at the present time, when 

 this part of the world seems to be a most popular 

 paradise for the big-game shooter. 



I was very fortunate in being able to get up 

 North with the new Masai Reserves Commission, 

 as I got a good number of my trophies there and 

 then in Laikipia. I was also lucky in being sent 

 out with the Anglo-German Boundary Commis- 

 sion, as the shooting all down the border was 

 wonderful, and, what is more, had never before 

 been touched. 



In this book I want to put down ideas of the 

 various kinds of animals that I have come across, 

 that sportsmen who go to East Africa might 

 meet any day of the week — in their proper dis- 

 trict, of course — so as to be a sort of guide as 

 to what to do in the pursuit of them. 



Another two reasons for this effort are, that, 

 firstly, I fancy there is not an up-to-date book 



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