2 12 Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



SPORT IN MASHONALAND. 



Sport in South Africa — Hints to inexperienced sportsmen — 

 Approximate cost of equipment for a six months' hunting 

 expedition — Sir Jolin Willoughby arrives at our camp 

 on the Hunyani lliver — ?Iunting tlie Hartebeest — How 

 to cook venison — A Slough of Despond — Further hunting 

 adventures after antelope — A native hunting party — A 

 cobra in the camp — Metliod of scaring vultures off dead 

 game — Accident to ]\Iajor Giles — Scarcity of grain and 

 food in Mashonaland — Keturn to Fort Salisbury. 



To the young Englishman fond of shooting, of 

 riding, of a wild hunter's life, active, vigorous, 

 healthy, and endowed with adequate fortune, those 

 reo'ions of South Africa Avhich extend from the 

 Limpopo to the Hunyani River offer a field for 

 sport not to be equalled in any other part of the 

 world. During the winter time, from May to 

 September, the climate of this region is almost per- 

 fect, the risk of fever slight. The air of the veldt 

 is invigorating, the scenery and surroundings at- 

 tractive and various, the life of the hunter tem- 

 perate and wholesome. This man coming to these 

 parts of Africa, eager for sport, will experience 

 little, if any, disappointment. Accompanied and 

 guided by some good Dutch hunter, such as Hans 

 Lee, he will see, pursue, probably kill almost 

 every African wild animal, witli the exception of 



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