INTRODUCTORY 15 



English sportsmen, Major Powell-Cotton's admirable 

 and recent work, A Sporting Trip through Abyssinia 

 (Rowland Ward, 1902), should be carefully studied. 

 The general cost and the various items of outfit, 

 carriers, shikaris, etc., are all most carefully dealt 

 with. 



Any one hunting in Africa at the present time 

 must bear in mind that the conditions and prospects 

 of sport with big game have almost totally altered 

 within the last half-dozen years. It is impossible to 

 follow in a work of this kind all the innumerable 

 enactments for the protection of big game that have 

 been made recently by our own and other govern- 

 ments. These enactments are changing from year 

 to year, and even from month to month, and it 

 requires a complete volume to keep pace with them. 

 If the gunner desires to shoot in a particular country, 

 he should satisfy himself by careful inquiry in the 

 right quarters in what way the game is protected, 

 what are the shooting licenses, and how many head 

 of game he may shoot. 



British East Africa and German East Africa may 

 now be said to be almost closed to European hunters. 

 In the first place a game license of ^50 (for East 

 Africa and Uganda) is demanded, only a certain 

 number of antelopes may be shot, and elephants, 

 rhinoceros, and other species of game are protected. 1 

 In the Sudan the license costs 50, and the sports- 

 man's bag is severely limited. Large reserves are 

 closed to travellers. 



1 Two bull elephants and two rhinoceros may be shot. 



