being enforced, the wasteful gunner is being warned 

 off, or penalised by stringent game laws, and the 

 native hunter, who works more harm than all the 

 rest of the sportsmen put together, is being occasion- 

 ally looked after. The fair sportsman, who is not 

 ambitious to make a holocaust of game, can still 

 obtain first-rate shooting in various parts of Africa 

 among many kinds of game, from the elephant, the 

 rhinoceros, the lion, and the buffalo, down to the 

 tiniest antelope, if he knows where to go and can 

 shoot reasonably well. He will, of course, have to 

 travel further and to pay more for his sport than 

 he used to do. Game licenses, ranging from 10 

 to 50, and even more, are now payable in many 

 places, and the old and good days of South African 

 shooting, when a man had but to fit out a waggon 

 for three or four months and return loaded up with 

 trophies, are now fast vanishing. South Africa was, 

 of course, the hunter's paradise ; the country was 

 extraordinarily healthy, the game was everywhere, 

 and horses could always be used. In most other 

 parts of the African continent the sportsman has to 

 seek his game on foot, the heat is infinitely trying, 

 and fever, dysentery, and other troubles are con- 

 stantly sapping at a man's vitality. In Somaliland, 

 it is true, ponies can be obtained and employed, and 

 now and again in Portuguese South -West Africa, 

 where good shooting is to be had, a horse can be 

 procured and kept alive. But wherever he may 

 trek, the wanderer in search of sport has to bear in 

 mind the fact that, at the present day, to be a sue- 



