-r> Stalking" Expeditions in the \yika 



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 IK; tries a shot at one of the old fellows 

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

 of a zoological collection, one wishes to obtain a lan/e 



number of specimens of various ages, then, armed with 

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

 hours tor 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 ot rock-badgers seems to me to 

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