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be an easy matter to fill several chapters with accounts of the shooting of various 

 animals, but I think I have mentioned enough to show how pleasant these evening 

 walks can be when one is living a quiet existence in the African bush. To anyone 

 but a lover of Nature and wild life the loneliness would be intolerable. The Australian 

 poet Paterson has a verse in his poem, "Clancy of the Overflow," which describes the 

 feelings of the bush rover faithfully : 



" And the bush has friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him, 

 In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, 

 And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended. 

 And at night the wondrous beauty of the everlasting stars." 



BELT, WITh CARTRIDGES, KNIFE, AND POUCH. 



