THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 5 



how this happens, for the prevalent behef is that Eng- 

 lish sportsmen have pretty well run over all the larger 

 possibilities. This is a legitimate question and a legiti- 

 mate wonder that should be answered and satisfied 

 before full credence can be placed in so important a 

 discovery. That unknown to sportsmen there still 

 remained in the beginning of the year 19 13 a country 

 as big as the celebrated hunting grounds of British 

 East Africa and even better stocked with game is due, 

 briefly, to three causes : 



In the first place, the district in question has escaped 

 the knowledge of English sportsmen because it is situ- 

 ated in a very out of the way corner of a German pro- 

 tectorate. The Englishman is not at home in German 

 territory, and, as long as he can get sport elsewhere — 

 as he has been able to do — is not inclined to enter it. 

 In the second place, the German himself, being mainly 

 interested in administrative and scientific matters, is 

 rarely in the technical sense a sportsman. The usual 

 Teuton ofl&cial or settler does not care for shooting and 

 exploration, and the occasional hunter is quite content 

 with the game to be found near at home. He does not 

 like to go far afield unless he is forced to do so. In the 

 third place, this new country is protected on all sides 

 by natural barriers. Along the northern limits, whence 

 the English sportsman* might venture, extend high, 



* The sportsmen of other nationalities, including the Germans, are in- 

 clined to hunt in British territory for the simple reason that the sporting 

 facilities are there perfected. 



