CHAPTER XXXII. 



HINTS ON EQUIPMENT, ETC. 



MY reason for giving a few hints on weapons, camp 

 equipment, clothing, etc., is this. I myself have often 

 been glad to find such information in books about 

 countries and sports that were new to me, and the 

 knowledge so gained has been most useful to me. 



Since I commenced the revision of the proofs of 

 this work there has come to hand an illustration of the 

 desirability of young sportsmen's profiting by the 

 experience of their predecessors, at once practical and 

 painful. I allude to the regrettable death of the 

 younger Prince Ruspoli. In case the account of the 

 catastrophe may have escaped the notice of any of my 

 readers, I may say that the Prince met his death 

 elephant-shooting in Eastern Africa. Seeing from his 

 camp a large single elephant, he went out to attack it, 

 alone, on foot, and in open country, with the natural 

 result that the brute's first charge was fatal to the 

 sportsman. The newspaper accounts vary as to the 

 weapon he was using at the time of his death, some 

 giving it as a gun, others as a Wetterly (Italian military) 

 rifle. One fact remains certain that it was not a 

 proper elephant rifle, and as another paper says the 



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