SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



It is true that this manoeuvre, which was always 

 successful for the first fortnight, became much more 

 difficult of execution when the game was aware of 

 my intentions. At the end of my stay I was more 

 than once obliged to have the animal that I had been 

 unable to lead to the place where I wanted to kill it, 

 carried there from a considerable distance by my 

 men. 



On September 21st, I left my camp and, after 

 having crossed the M'eodza, made a halt at the village 

 of Casenga. At nine o'clock the next day I crossed 

 the Vunduzi and installed myself on the left bank 

 of that river, near the village of Sabongo. I remained 

 there a fortnight, during which I shot two elands, 

 several sable antelopes, waterbucks, hartebeests, bush- 

 bucks, and oribis, three hyaenas, and a wild boar, as 

 well as a small kind of monkey which is only found 

 in the plains, and is known to the natives as the goto. 



I also got some guinea-fowl and a variety of goat- 

 sucker, remarkable for the two long feathers on 

 each wing. Unfortunately, I sought in vain for 

 hippopotamuses, they were not to be found. 



The whole of this district is very fertile, and superb 

 for cultivation, the forests are magnificent, and game 

 is abundant. On the other hand, lions are somewhat 

 scarce. I have only found the tracks of a single trio, 

 a male and two females, which I never saw in the 

 flesh. On October 6th, I moved, by a route parallel 

 to the course of the Vunduzi, to the village of Chingole, 



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