CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



HUNTING IN THE MOUNTAINS 



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Arrival at Mozambique — My Armament — Installation at Manica 

 — Our First Hunting Expeditions — The Bushbuck — The Duiker 

 — The Klipspringer — The Dog-Faced Baboon — A Bold Genet— 

 Bird-shooting — The Rainy Season — Magnificent Spectacle of 

 Fires kindled by the Natives — Meeting a Compatriot — Kafir 

 Modes of Fishing — Snakes ...... ' 



CHAPTER II 



A RUSH TO THE BUSI 



How we Travel — Aspect of the Country — The Sable and the Roan 

 Antelope — The Mitred Guinea-Fowl — The Ruins of Chivumba — 

 The Vulturine Guinea-Fowl — Fishing with Dynamite — The 

 Wild Dog — The Honey-guide — Along the Towa — A Night 

 Attack — The Spotted Hyaena — Lake Nyakanga — The Spur- 

 winged Goose — From the Muda to Guengere . . .27 



CHAPTER III 



IN THE FOREST 



My First Walks along the Guengere — The Wart-hog Boar — 

 Lichtenstein's Hartebeest — A Day of Adventure — The Water- 

 buck — Wahlberg's Zebra — Kites, Vultures, and Marabouts — 

 Otters — The Palm-rat — The Hornhill — The Reedbuck — The 

 Mongoose — The Oribi — Sojourn at Ganda — A Nocturnal Visit 

 from Lions — The Red Duiker — The Eland — Palm-wine — Kafir 

 Superstition — The Wild Pig — The Lions of the Tendo of Chikari 

 —The Brindled Gnu— Fight with a Buffalo— The Buffalo of 

 Kafraria — The Blue Duiker . . . . . .53 



CHAPTER IV 



DURING THE RAINY SEASON 



Trapping Harmful Animals — An Encounter with Leopards — An 



Enterprising Lion — The Red Lynx — The Civet — The Porcupine 



— A Gigantic Rat — Monitors— Certain Birds — Journey to the 



- Gorongoza — The Ascent of N'hatete — Luis, the King of Goron- 



goza — Manuel Antonio Gouveia — Richness of the Country in 



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