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when one is after rarer game, as they do m East 

 xA.frica further south. I think that man}^ men, whose 

 wanderings with the rifle have been world-wide, will 

 look back to their association with these pluck}^ 

 sociable, and intelligent Somali hunters and camel-men, 

 as among their pleasantest memories. 



It is sad to think that political exigencies have 

 now practically closed these regions ; and the sports- 

 man, at least, will welcome any complications in the 

 future which will again open up the country, and give 

 him back his lost hunting grounds. 



H. G. C. SWAYNE. 



1912. 



