Night-Shoots 



IX an earlier chapter I have already given some reasons 

 why night-shoots in Equatorial Africa have in 

 them much to deter the hunter, enticing as they may 

 seem in Europe. 



In man\~ cases it is not possible to arrange a "raised 

 ambush' in trees, and many wild animals sometimes 

 even lions -arc too timid to approach closely an " ambush 

 which is right down on the ground; so that the sports- 

 man is altogether too dependent on the way the wind is 

 blowing. The attacks of insects of various kinds, above 

 all ot ants, are another horrible nuisance'. Nothing in 

 the tropics is more weakening to the body, and more 

 likely to expose it to the attacks ot lever, than the loss 

 ot ones most necessary night's rest. All the same. 1 

 advise every one who is entering upon the study et 

 animal lite, to undergo once or twice the minute hard- 

 ships ot a night-shoot, tor the sake ot its ta-cination. 



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