In Wildest Africa ^ 



disquisition, and serves to explain the secret of many 

 a mishap in the African wilderness/ 



^ Latterly many sportsmen in the tropics have taken again to the use 

 of very large-calibre rifles. Charges of as much as 21 gr. of black powder 

 and a 26| mm. bullet are employed with them. It is to the kick of such 

 a rifle that the author owes the scar which is visible in the portrait serving 

 as frontispiece to this book — an " untouched " photograph, like all the 

 others. 



A missionary's dwelling near KILIMANJARO IN WHICH I STAYED SEVERAL 



TIMES AS GUEST. 



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