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fraction or evasion, the destruction of the game 

 animals will be averted, as hunting parties cannot 

 traverse the African veldt without detection, at 

 least by natives, who would be only too glad for 

 a small remuneration to report the presence of 

 such as might seek to enter the country by routes 

 unprotected by police stations or the presence of 

 permanent officials. 



English hunting parties will not be deterred by 

 the payment of 100 from gratifying their tastes, 

 and it may be added that such parties, composed 

 as they naturally are of men with true sporting 

 instincts, as a rule avoid committing the un- 

 necessary and cruel slaughter which Boer hunters 

 delight in, and universally practise. These people, 

 armed with long-range small-bore rifles, indeed, 

 never can resist the temptation' of pumping a 

 stream of lead " into the brown " of any troops of 

 game within sight, picking up only those animals 

 which fall on or near the spot where they were hit, 

 and taking no trouble whatever to try and secure 

 any of the numerous wounded which are left to 

 die miserably without compunction. 



The almost universal use of small-bore rifles 

 (inclusive of ^o-bores) has played the mischief 



