CHAPTER V. 



ABOUT SPORTING AND MILITARY WEAPONS. 



WITH rapid and relatively cheap travel, English 

 sportsmen have opportunities to visit countries 

 where good sport offers. In spite of the available 

 information on the subject of foreign sport, I have 

 observed that men intending to obtain it usually 

 encumber themselves with batteries as expensive 

 as they are superfluous. 



In all wild countries it may be taken for granted 

 that transport is more or less difficult, imperfect, 

 and expensive, and the obligation to be constantly 

 on the alert to watch over the safety of a costly 

 battery soon becomes intolerable, and a waste of 

 energy in a profitless direction. I venture, there- 

 fore, by virtue of my experience of half a century, 

 in many lands, but chiefly in Africa, to offer some 

 items of advice to brother sportsmen who con- 

 template "going foreign." Having used nearly 

 every kind of weapon of portable dimensions from 



