A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



Let me say at once that coming to this decision 

 was a great mistake from a shooting, as apart from 

 a traveller s point of view. The shooting in Nyasa- 

 land is good of its kind, judging from what we saw 

 of it, and a three months' sojourn in the country 

 would probably have repaid us. Six weeks was 

 hardly sufficient time, however, to do it justice, 

 and as we found subsequently that our stay in 

 North- East Rhodesia was also too short ; from a 

 sporting point of view, we rather fell between two 

 stools. In the light of after events it would have 

 been far better to have confined our shooting to 

 Nyasaland, and to have postponed our proposed 

 trip to Lake Bangwelo to another season. 



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