-^ After Elephants with Wandorobo 



saying in a country where your every requisite, great and 

 small, has to be carried on men's shoulders — no other form 

 of transport being available — from the moment you set foot 

 within the wilderness. I am not now talking of quite short 

 expeditions, but of the bigger enterprises which take the 

 traveller into the interior for a period of months. I hold 

 that this breaking away from all the resources of civilised 

 life should be one of the sportsman's chief incentives, and 

 one of his chief enjoyments. I can, of course, quite 

 understand experienced hunters taking another view. 

 Many have had such serious encounters with the big 

 game they have shot, and above all such unfortunate 

 experiences of African climates, that they may well have 

 had enough of such drawbacks. 



Their assertions, in any case, tend to make it clear that 

 sport in this East African wilderness is no child's play. 

 In reality, all depends upon the character and equipment 

 of the man who goes in for it. The apparently difficult 

 game of tennis presents no difficulties to the expert tennis- 

 player. With an inferior player it is otherwise. So it is 

 in regard to hunting in the tropics. It is obvious that 

 experience in sport here at home is of the greatest possible 

 use out there — is, in fact, absolutely essential to one's 

 success. Only those should attempt it who are prepared 

 to do everything and cope with all obstacles for themselves, 

 who do not need to rely on others, and whose nerves are 

 proof against the extraordinary excitements and strains 

 which out there are your daily experience. 



I myself am conscious of a steadily increasing distaste 

 for face-to-face encounters with_ rhinoceroses, and with 



2>7^ 



