-* Stalking Expeditions in the Nyika 



putting the sportsman's patience to the hardest proof 

 they will survive for long ages the last rhinoceros on 

 earth perhaps even the human race. . . . 



This small game is not particularly interesting to the 

 hunter, unless he tries a shot at one of the old fellows 

 warming himself in the morning sun. It, in the pursuit 

 of a zoological collection, one wishes to obtain a 



A WELCOME I'OOL OF YELLOW WA I ER WHICH WE REACHED AFTER 

 GOING TWENTY-FOUR HOURS WITHOUT A DRINK 



number of specimens of various ages, then, armed with 

 an ordinary shot-gun, one must be ready to sit still for 

 hours for hours may indeed elapse before the experienced 

 old animals will leave their hiding-places and expose them- 

 selves to the gun. And when the game is hit, it must be 

 dispatched before it can reach its rocky lair, for otherwise 

 it is irretrievably lost to the hunter. 



Thus the hunting of rock-badgers seems to me to 

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