8 BIG GAME SHOOTING 



The pursuit of big game and nothing else has 

 rendered the Boers what they have proved themselves 

 in the late war, the most dangerous and most ruse 

 fighting men with whom the British soldier has ever 

 yet had to measure himself. It is true that now and 

 again big-game shooting has been overdone, and the 

 gunner, carried away by his enthusiasm for the 

 chase, has here and there shot recklessly, and it may 

 be wastefully. But, as a rule, the sportsman proper, 

 as distinguished from the mere hide hunter and 

 professional slayer of game, shoots in a husband- 

 like manner, and is nowadays content with slay- 

 ing dangerous carnivora, and securing only prime 

 trophies and picked specimens. 



Happily for our race, there are many hundreds, 

 one may say thousands, or Britons who, in search of 

 that sport and wild life which have for them such an 

 abounding fascination, are prepared to give up many 

 things that we class to-day, not as luxuries merely, 

 but as necessaries of life ; who will cheerfully abandon 

 comforts, and venture health nay, even life itself 

 in the attainment of the trophies they seek. To these 

 Africa has yet much to offer, and there the finest and 

 most enthralling sport in the world is still to be 

 obtained. In the following pages will be found 

 indicated, as concisely as possible, the great game to 

 be found in various parts of the continent, their 

 habits, the methods of hunting them, and the 

 countries and localities in which they are found, 

 together with such information as to the battery, 

 outfit, and other details as may be of use and interest 



