24 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



It represents in part Kermit's taste, in part mine; and, 

 I need hardly say, it also represents in no way all the books 

 we most care for, but merely those which, for one reason 

 or another, we thought we should like to take on this par- 

 ticular trip. 



I used my Whitman tree army saddle and my army 

 field-glasses; but, in addition, for studying the habits of 

 the game, I carried a telescope given me on the boat by a 

 fellow traveller and big-game hunter, an Irish hussar cap- 

 tain from India and incidentally I am out in my guess if 

 this same Irish hussar captain be not worth watching 

 should his country ever again be engaged in war. I had 

 a very ingenious beam or scale for weighing game, designed 

 and presented to me by my friend, Mr. Thompson Seton. 

 I had a slicker for wet weather, an army overcoat, and a 

 mackinaw jacket for cold, if I had to stay out over night in 



COLONEL CLAUDE CANE. 



RT. HON. SYDNEY BUXTON, M.P. (Postmaster General, "Fishing and Shooting.") 



MAJOR C. E. RADCLYFFE, D.S.O. 



SIR A. E. PEASE, BART. ("Cleveland Hounds.") 



SIR H. H. JOHNSTON, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. ("The Uganda Protectorate.") 



ABEL CHAPMAN, ESQ. ("Wild Spain.") 



J. G. MILLAIS, ESQ., F.Z.S. ("A Breath from the Veldt.") 



E. LORT-PHILLIPS, ESQ. (Author of ornithological works.) 

 R. KEARTON, ESQ., F.Z.S. ("Wild Nature's Ways.") 



J. H. GURNEY, ESQ., F.Z.S. (Works on ornithology.) 



F. J. JACKSON, C.B., C.M.G., LIEUT. -GOVERNOR EAST AFRICAN PROTECTORATE, 



("Big Game," Badminton Library.) 

 COL. SIR F. LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. 

 LADY LUGARD. ("A Tropical Dependency.") 

 SIR CLEMENT L. HILL, K.C.B., M.P. (Late Head of the African Department; 



Foreign O.) 



SIR H. SETON-KARR, M.P., C.M.G. ("My Sporting Holidays.' 1 ) 

 CAPTAIN BOYD ALEXANDER. ("From the Niger to the Nile.") 

 SIR J. KIRK, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. (Dr. Livingstone's companion, 1858-64.) 

 MORETON FREWEN, ESQ. 

 THE EARL OF WARWICK. 



P. L. SCLATER, ESQ., D.Sc., PH.D. (Late Sec. Zool. Soc.) 

 COL. J. H. PATTERSON, D.S.O. ("The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.") 



