CHAPTER XIV. 



STALKING. 

 African Game Successful Shots Spooring. 



PERHAPS the reader will think that I exaggerate the 

 incidents, that I have narrated in reference to an 

 African night, but this is not so ; as they have 

 been told, so they occurred. 



Africa, although no new country, is at the present 

 time the hunting-ground par excellence of the whole 

 world. The buffalo has nominally disappeared from- 

 North America; the grizzly bear, the terror of the 

 Rocky Mountains, is now scarcely to be found ; but 

 Africa still possesses such animals as are worthy of 

 the intrepidity and skill of the most daring sports- 

 man. If the traveller goes far enough into this 

 great continent he will there meet an elephant worth 

 slaying, not the semi-domestic beast of India ; and 

 instead of the tiger of Hindostan he will be brought 

 into the presence of the lion, and within range of 



