CHAPTER III 



ARMS AND AMMUNITION 



THE first step that I recommend a sportsman to 

 take, who proposes a trip to the Sudan, is to apply 

 for a copy of the latest regulations under the Arms 

 Act in that country. I myself was in correspondence 

 with the Sudanese authorities for a year before pro- 

 ceeding to the country, and laid in my stock of arms 

 and ammunition in absolute ignorance of the fact 

 that Europeans were in any way more restricted 

 with regard to the import of arms and ammunition 

 than is the case in India. However, on applying for 

 a permit to actually land the arms which I possessed 

 and the ammunition which I had purchased, I was 

 informed that no permit could be issued unless I 

 substantially altered my schedule. The rules with 

 regard to these articles are of course subject to 

 variation, and I can only give a few leading features 

 of the law as it stood in 1910. 



In the first place, the import of rifles or ammunition 

 of the '303 calibre is absolutely prohibited. 



In the second place, the total amount of ammu- 

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