14 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



likes his shooting brought to his bedside. But the real 

 out-of-doors man who believes that he buys fairly his 

 privilege to shoot only when he has paid a certain price 

 of manhood, skill, and determination, who is interested 

 in seeing and studying game, who loves exploring, who 

 wants extra good trophies that have never been picked 

 over, in whose heart thrills a responsive chord at the 

 thought of being first, such a man should by all means 

 go, and go soon, within the next five years. It is a 

 big country, and much remains to be done. He can 

 keep healthy, he can help open the game fields for the 

 future brother sportsmen, and he can for the last time 

 in the world's history be one of the small band that 

 will see the real thing! 



Nevertheless, it is fully appreciated that, to the aver- 

 age man with limited time, even a virgin game district 

 is of no great general value unless it can be got at. 

 The average sportsman cannot afford to make great 

 expenditures of time, money, or energy on an ordinary 

 shooting trip. The accessibility as well as the abun- 

 dance of British East Africa game is what has made 

 that country so famous and so frequented. It would 

 be little worth your while as practical sportsmen to 

 spend a great deal of time over descriptions of a game 

 field so remote as to remain forever impossible except 

 to the serious explorer, nor would in that case the value 

 of discovering an unshot country possess other than 

 academic interest. 



