WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



assistants, Messrs. Loveless and Means, really could 

 do what I wanted. 



I had, of course, heard and read stories of the 

 feats of American cowboys, how they could lasso 

 anything, but one does not hastily take such yarns 

 at their face value, and I had, I admit, had certain 

 misgivings regarding this trip. Consequently, I was 

 greatly delighted when I found that my men were 

 really first class hands at their own particular work, 

 quick, fearless and excellent horsemen. 



Ulyate, the professional hunter, reined up suddenly 

 and pointed to three black objects about four hundred 

 yards away. They were wart-hogs, he said. 



Away went the Americans to drive them up to us, 

 whilst I sent my assistant to hurry on the carriers with 

 the cameras. The latter turned up in time, and I 

 had them fixed in a convenient place. 



Meanwhile the carriers squatted down, waiting with 

 the dull apathy of the African savage. Certainly a 

 few did watch the proceedings ; but to most of them 

 it was simply an example of the foolishness of the 

 white man, and unless the affair resulted in their 

 getting meat for that evening's meal, it did not concern 

 them in the least degree. 



The horsemen had now got the wart-hogs on the 

 run, and were doing their work cleverly. After a 

 while they very wisely let the two smaller beasts go 

 and concentrated all their efforts on the big boar. He 



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