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Animal 5 ' is the entry " i zebra"; under the heading "By 

 whom impounded" is the entry "Major Smith, R.E."; 

 under the heading "Remarks" is the entry "Sold by Pub- 

 lic Auctioneers Raphael & Coy on 24/8/09." 



We had with us several recent books on East African 

 big game; Chapman's "On Safari," dealing alike with 

 the hunting and 

 the natural his- 

 tory of big game; 

 Powell Cotton's 

 accounts of his 

 noteworthy expe- 

 riences both in 

 hunting and in 

 bold exploration; 

 Stigand's capital 

 studies of the 

 spoor and habits 

 of big game (it 

 is to be regretted 

 that he was too 

 modest to narrate 

 some of his own 

 really extraordi- 

 nary adventures in 

 the chase of dan- 

 gerous beasts); 

 and Buxton's ac- 

 count of his two African trips. Edward North Buxton's 

 books ought to be in the hands of every hunter every- 

 where, and especially of every young hunter, because they 

 teach just the right way in which to look at the sport. 

 With Buxton big-game hunting is not a business but a 

 pastime, not allowed to become a mania or in any way 

 to interfere with the serious occupations of life, whether 

 public or private ; and yet as he has carried it on it 

 is much more than a mere pastime, it is a craft, a pur- 



Mr. Roosevelt in a bamboo forest 

 From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



