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a very ingenious beam or scale for weighing game, designed 

 and presented to me by my friend, Mr. Thompson Seton. 

 I had a slicker for wet weather, an army overcoat, and a 

 mackinaw jacket for cold, if I had to stay out overnight in 

 the mountains. In my pockets I carried, of course, a knife, 

 a compass, and a water-proof match-box. Finally, just be- 

 fore leaving home, I had been sent, for good luck, a gold- 

 mounted rabbit's foot, by Mr. John L. Sullivan, at one time 

 ring champion of the world. 



Our camp was on a bare, dry plain, covered with brown 

 and withered grass. At most hours of the day we could 

 see round about, perhaps a mile or so distant, or less, the 

 game feeding. South of the track the reserve stretched for 

 a long distance; north it went for but a mile, just enough to 

 prevent thoughtless or cruel people from shooting as they 

 went by in the train. There was very little water; what 

 we drank, by the way, was carefully boiled. The drawback 



SIR WM. LEE-WARNER, K.C.S.I. ("The Protected Princes of India.") 



THE RT. REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. 



MAJOR-GEN. DALRYMPLE WHITE. 



COLONEL CLAUDE CANE. 



RT. HON. SYDNEY BUXTON, M.P. (Postmaster General, "Fishing and Shooting.") 



MAJOR C. E. RADCLYFFE, D.S.O. 



SIR A. E. PEASE, BART. ("Cleveland Hounds.") 



SIR H. H. JOHNSTON, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. ("The Uganda Protectorate.") 



ABEL CHAPMAN, ESQ. ("Wild Spain.") 



J. G. MILLAIS, ESQ., F.Z.S. ("A Breath from the Veldt.") 



E. LORT-PHILLIPS, ESQ. (Author of ornithological works.) 

 R. KEARTON, ESQ., F.Z.S. ("Wild Nature's Ways.") 



J. H. GURNEY, ESQ., F.Z.S. (Works on ornithology.) 



F. J. JACKSON, C.B., C.M.G., LIEUT. -GOVERNOR EAST AFRICAN PROTECTORATE. 



("Big Game," Badminton Library.) 

 COL. SIR F. LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. 

 LADY LUGARD. ("A Tropical Dependency.") 

 SIR CLEMENT L. HILL, K.C.B., M.P. (Late Head of the African Department- 



Foreign O.) 



SIR H. SETON-KARR, M.P., C.M.G. ("My Sporting Holidays.") 

 CAPTAIN BOYD ALEXANDER. ("From the Niger to the Nile.") 

 SIR J. KIRK, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. (Dr. Livingstone's companion, 1858-64.) 

 MORETON FREWEN, ESQ. 

 THE EARL OF WARWICK. 



P. L. SCLATER, ESQ., D.?c., PH.D. (Late Sec. Zool. Soc.) 

 COL. J. H. PATTERSON, D.S.O. ("The Man-Eatcrs of Tsavo.") 



