BIG GAME SHOOTING 



CHAPTER I 



ON BIG GAME SHOOTING GENERALLY 

 BY CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY 



IT may be asked, as to these volumes, why ' Big Game 

 Shooting ' should find a place in a series devoted to British 

 sports and pastimes, whereas, except the red deer, there is no 

 big game in Great Britain ? 



It is true that there is no big game left in Britain ; but if the 

 game is not British, its hunters are, and it is hardly too much 

 to say that, out of every ten riflemen wandering about the world 

 at present from Spitzbergen to Central Africa, nine are of the 

 Anglo-Saxon breed. 



It may be asked, again, what justification there is for the 



'Springbuck. 2 Steinbuck. 3 Blesbuck. 4 Reedbuck. 

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