THREE YEARS' 

 SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



CHAPTER I 



HUNTING IN THE MOUNTAINS 



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 . 



On the tenth of June, 1904, after a passage of thirty- 

 five days, the steamship Kanzler landed my wife 

 and myself at Beira, the capital of the Portuguese 

 territory, governed by the Mozambique Company. 

 Forty-eight hours later, having gone through the 

 usual formalities and necessary custom-duties, we 

 took, at nine o'clock in the evening, the mail train 

 which runs twice a week to the Cape through Rhodesia. 

 But we were not going so far, as our terminus was 

 Massikess6, the centre of an important mining 

 district, bordering on the British frontier. 



We had with us a considerable load of provisions, 

 cartridges, medical stores, clothes, implements, etc., 



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