SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



An excursion on the plateau of Gilly, where I 

 penetrate to the river Vunduzi, the boundary of the 

 provinces of Gorongoza and Barwe, brings me a very 

 formidable and agile serpent, the grey mamba, which 

 I kill with a ball at the moment when it was going to 

 spring upon us, and also a species of small antelope 

 known to English sportsmen as the blue duiker. 



This was my last trip ; a new regulation applying 

 to this colony, prohibiting hunting from December 

 31st to May 1st has just been issued, and in awaiting 

 the result of the application I am making to obtain 

 a special licence, I am bound to respect the prohibi- 

 tion, after having celebrated the concluding day by 

 a hunt in which I kill a wart-hog, a bushbuck, two 

 blue duikers, and a blue monkey. 



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