CHAPTER III. 



GAME AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



VISITORS to the Cape and Natal Colonies consist- 

 ing for the most part of town dwellers with but 

 little of the cacoaethes venandi in their disposition,, 

 and confining their travelling operations to the 

 few but much frequented lines of rail and road 

 between the coast and the great mining centres, 

 would, no doubt, if answering an enquiry as to the 

 prospects of shooting in these countries, honestly 

 reply that the prospects were anything but bright. 

 But no country in any comfortably accessible part 

 of the world is better supplied with greater variety 

 of game animals and birds than are many vast 

 tracts within Colonial limits ; nowhere may good 

 sport be more freely indulged at a minimum of 

 expense or fewer vexatious restrictions. 



There are laws restricting the pursuit of game 

 within certain times and seasons, according to the 



D 



