Sport in Nyasaland 



started off with a few men, and my wife have re- 

 mained behind alone for an indefinite time an 

 impossible arrangement in the African wilds. 



A professional elephant hunter, who reached 

 Fort Jameson with four fine tusks, told us that it 

 had taken him seven weeks' incessant hard work to 

 get them, and that his boys had wanted to give out 

 more than once. 



Kudu (Strepsiceros capensis). We have good 

 authority for saying that kudu are plentiful through- 

 out the South Nyasa district and along the 

 southern shores of the Lake; though, like all kudu, 

 they are difficult to find, and except at Chenda- 

 wasika, where they were feeding in the village 

 gardens, we were unlucky as regards actually seeing 

 them. They are to be found, we believe, in the 

 Mlanje district. Somewhat to our surprise, we 

 met them on the Bua, and they were reported along 

 the mountains which form the boundary between 

 Nyasaland and North-East Rhodesia. The licence 

 allows four to be shot ; we only got two, but a 

 third was lost through mischance, and a little better 

 luck, if not better management, would easily have 

 given us our number. 



Sable (Hippotragus niger). Sable are fairly 

 plentiful along the Shire. We saw two herds from 

 our first camp in that district, and in the highlands 

 we met them at intervals from Fort Melangani to 

 Lilongwe, the Chongoni mountain district providing 

 three out of our four heads. 



We were told not to expect them north of the 

 Bua ; but that they are to be found there was 



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