i 



CONTENTS ix 



FAOB 



A strange but true prophecy — Philip Ryan — A bad night 

 at Long Harbour — The woman's presence — The story of 

 Ryan's wife — Death of Philip Ryan — Letter from a 

 Micmac Indian — Strange letter from a Russian girl — 

 The Ducks of the World — The diifictilties of the under- 

 taking — Gerald Legge — Letter from the Kalahari desert — 

 Lord William Percy on American ducks. 



CHAPTER VI 



ARTHUR NEUMANN, PIONEER AND ELEPHANT HUNTER . 138 



Residence in Natal — Settles in Sweiziland — The Zulu War 

 — Ubandeni thinks the Zulus impregnable — ^Macleod's 

 courage — ^Ubandeni's common-sense — ^Neumann returns to 

 Natal — Hunting on the Sabi and Limpopo Rivers — Goes 

 to Mombasa — Expedition to establish route to the Victoria 

 Nyanza — Negirly speared by a Masai — Railway route dis- 

 covered — Becomes a magistrate in Ziiluland — Returns to 

 Mombasa — ^First big expedition into the interior after 

 elephants — Reaches Mount Kenia, — Shoots a wonderfiil 

 rhinoceros — Kills eleven elephants in one day — ^Makes 

 head camp at El Bogoi — ^Visits Lake Rudolph — Some 

 great tuskers — Shebane eaten by a crocodile — ^Nevimann 

 nearly killed by a cow elephant — Shoots three elephants 

 with exceptional tusks — Returns to Mombasa — ^Neumann's 

 shy disposition but lovable nature — Goes to South Africa 

 to take part in the second Boer War — Joins Bethune's 

 moTxnted infantry — ^Nearly killed at Spion Kop — Life in 

 camp at Mount Kenia — Journey up the Tanei — Elephant 

 hunting and its dangers — The wonderftil Rigby rifle — 

 Kills a lion — Retxirns to Mombasa — ^Expedition of 1903 — 

 Neumann on certain types of big-game hunters and big- 

 game photography — Elephant tusks taken in 1904— 

 Some adventures—Condition of the ivory trade — A bar to 

 his futiu-e hunting — ^A dismal outlook — Arrival in England 

 in 1906 — His death — Influence with the natives — One of 

 England's best pioneers — Ignored as usual — His friends the 

 Jacksons — ^Noomi Jackson — ^The strange appearance of 

 Neumann after death — Letter of Mrs. Jackson — Selous 

 on reappearance after death — ^Visit of the author and 

 Macleod to the Jacksons — Opinion of the Society of 

 Psychical Research. 



CHAPTER VII 



SCOTTISH SALMON-FISHING 169 



Fishermen and their yams — Stories true and fictitious — 

 Andrew Lang on fishing — The personal note in sport — 

 Luck — The advantages of local experience — The tjrro's 

 chance — Big days — Skill with prawn and minnow — Captain 

 Campbell — Big fish very rare — ^My father's early experi- 



