P REFA CE. 



My thanks are due to my friend Mr. George Garden, who has kindly given 

 me permission to use some of his splendid photographs of game, all the animals 

 illustrated having been shot by himself. The smaller photographs were taken by 

 myself of game I have shot, and there are also a few by Mr. T. A. Barns, F.Z.S. 



I am also obliged to the editor of the Field newspaper for allowing me to make 

 use of various articles I wrote for his paper at different times. These I have altered 

 slightly to suit their appearance in book form If some of my remarks (about 

 the natives, for instance,) do not meet with the approval of others, I can only say that 

 they are the ideas of a single individual, although many men in this country have 

 similar opinions. In all cases I have only mentioned facts, and everyone knows that 

 some facts are disagreeable; but that is no reason why they should be kept back 

 or hidden. 



Many men give their theoretical views in newspapers, magazines, and books 

 on African affairs without having had personal experience of their subject, and 

 in some cases they do not state the truth. It is absurd that men living in the 

 British Isles, who have never put foot in Africa, should judge things that they are 

 ignorant of, and send broadcast through the newspapers, etc., opinions which 

 are not only erroneous, but misleading. 



The MS. of this book reached England from North-Eastern Rhodesia some 

 months before my friend Capt. C. H. Stigand's book, entitled " The Game of British 

 East Africa," was published, a work for which I made some drawings of spoors. 



If any similarity is to be found on certain points it can only result from the 

 fact that our observations are based on the same lines. I have tried not to repeat 

 matter that appeared in our " Central African Game and Its Spoor," 



My share in that book consisted of the drawings of spoors and droppings 

 of the game, and other subjects; a fair amount of the letterpress; besides persuading 

 Mr. C. F. Selous to give us an introduction, and getting Mr. T. A. Barns and 

 Mr. George Garden to allow us the use of their photographs of game. I need 

 not, therefore, make any excuses for having given a few reduced spoors in this 

 volume also. 



D. D. L. 



Kapundi Stream, via Fort Jameson, 

 N.-E. Rhodesia, 



November, 1909. 



