THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 15 



If future safaris had to retrace our footsteps in this 

 expedition, the game would hardly be worth the candle. 

 It would take too long to get there; it would involve 

 too much hard work ; it would involve also the necessity 

 of doing just what we did in regard to food; viz. : carry- 

 ing it in on expensive beasts that would surely be fly- 

 struck and die soon after crossing the mountain barrier. 

 But fortunately this is not necessary. We suffered only 

 the inconveniences inseparable from the first penetra- 

 tion of a new country. We paid for mistakes in route 

 that need only be paid once. The problems of food, 

 transport, and water still remain; but we have worked 

 out a solution of them that makes the country practi- 

 cable to the ordinary sportsman. In the appendix de- 

 tails are given. 



I am convinced that these are the hunting fields of 

 the future, that they will be as extensively visited in 

 years to come as British East Africa is at present. 

 British East Africa is still a wonderful hunting field; 

 but it is passing its prime. The shooting by sportsmen 

 would never much diminish the game; but the settler 

 is occupying the country^, and game and settlers cannot 

 live together. I can see a great difference even in three 

 years. In time the game will be killed or driven far 

 back — game in great numbers — and even now, abun- 

 dant as the animals still are, it is difficult to get really 

 fine heads. They have been well picked over. 



This particular part of the German country, on the 



