i 4 BIG GAME SHOOTING 



sportsman has to fit out an extensive caravan, and a 

 considerable number of native followers are necessary. 

 The cost of a caravan of say sixty carriers will 

 average in wages alone probably from 75 to ^80 

 per month. 1 In addition to this, fire-arms and 

 ammunition for the men, and the sportsman's own 

 outfit, stores, arms, and equipment have to be 

 provided. Since the Uganda Railway has been built, 

 the expenses of the long march from the coast have 

 been much reduced, and the sportsman can get to 

 his ground far more quickly. It is always to be 

 remembered that the restrictions on shooting big 

 game in British East Africa and German East Africa 

 are now very severe, and the easy and rather wasteful 

 shooting of a few years since is now a thing of the 

 past. Before the gunner makes plans for sport in 

 this part of Africa, he may well pause to consider 

 whether the game is worth the candle. Mr. A. H. 

 Neumann and other well-known sportsmen apparently 

 think not. 



In Somaliland and Abyssinia caravans have to be 

 organised very much as in British East Africa. In 

 Somaliland camels are used for crossing the waterless 

 Hand, and ponies can be procured. The cost of 

 Somali hunting and outfit is very clearly and fully 

 set forth in Major H. G. C. Swayne's Seventeen 

 Trips through Somaliland (Rowland Ward, 1900). 

 For Abyssinia, hitherto almost a sealed book to 



1 Major Powell-Cotton, in his recent book, Through Unknown Africa, puts 

 the .full cost of an expedition at 100 a month. If the sportsman confines 

 himself to short trips from the Uganda Railway he could obtain fair shooting 

 for a good deal less. 



