Big Game Shooting 



water-buck, Grant, or dhero having been deci- 

 mated in the same way. 



I have often killed antelopes in both these 

 countries simply smothered in bots. The botfly, 

 as is well known, burrows in under the skin, lays 

 its sac of eggs and climbs out, leaving these eggs 

 to hatch on their own. They begin itching 

 and the animal starts scratching the place and 

 biting it, with the consequence that the maggots 

 cover him all over — mouth, feet, and everything. 

 Then they are swallowed in natural sequence, and 

 the animal consequently gets scraggy and poor. 

 Tsetse do not seem to affect any wild animal, nor 

 does African coast fever or redwater, which plays 

 such havoc amongst the cattle. This is strange, 

 because rinderpest started amongst cattle and 

 affected the game, so why do not the other two 

 diseases do likewise ? 



(2) Camivora. — The hunting dog is by far 

 the worst of all animals for killing game. A 

 pack of these brutes — one cannot call them any- 

 thing else — gets on to the track of an antelope 

 and the unfortunate animal is pursued up hill and 

 down dale till he is pulled down by his relentless 

 foes. When a pack is sighted they should be 

 slaughtered en masse — mere killing is too good 

 for them. One longs for the old days of rack 

 and thumbscrew to torture them with. Lions 

 and the spotted pard take their toll no doubt, 

 but in a more gentlemanly manner as a rule, 



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