74 DAYS AND NIGHTS BY THE DESERT. 



The uses to which each weapon was intended to 

 be put were No. i, with hollow bullets, for large 

 carnivorse and big antelopes. This is the prince of 

 weapons for such work, as they are seldom called 

 upon to perform at over two hundred yards. I am 

 quite aware they do a terrible lot of damage to 

 edible game that is required to be cut up into 

 attractive joints ; but in this country such is not 

 deemed necessary, and, however mangled any por- 

 tion of a beast may become from the smashing up 

 of the bullet, it in no way prevents your attendants 

 from enjoying it as food. Moreover, losing wounded 

 game, when struck with this projectile, is reduced 

 to a minimum no unimportant thing, when, through 

 circumstances that are unavoidable, you are reduced 

 to short commons. For lions and such like, a 450 

 Express, with a hollow bullet, if held straight, is 

 simply destruction. 



No. 2 is a good all-round gun, with eight 

 drachms of powder behind a spherical ball. With it 

 you can stop an elephant at sixty or seventy paces, 

 or tumble over a giraffe or buffalo at nearly double 

 that distance. It can be bored to shoot very accu- 

 rately up to a hundred and twenty yards, and with 

 some certainty of precision up to two hundred. 

 As the recoil is considerable with the above arm 

 so loaded, the anti-recoil pads, made by Messrs. 

 Silver and Co., of Cornhill, will be found most 

 valuable ; but particular care must be taken in 



