ISO BIG GAME SHOOTING 



Zoological Gardens, but after driving him 800 miles the grass 

 got very short, and his horns coming to the ground before his 

 nose, prevented him feeding. I was obliged to shoot him, and 

 his head now hangs over the sideboard in my dining-room. 



These slave-dealers, with their devilish counsels and temp- 

 tations, were Mambari, a kind of half-caste Portuguese, who 

 fifty years ago were agents for the export slave-trade. When the 

 survivors of the gangs reached the coast they were packed away 

 in a slave-ship, like herrings in a cask, and transported. Through 

 the vigilance of English cruisers this iniquitous traffic has been 

 greatly reduced, and, but for the refusal of the right of search 

 by the French, would be very small and unremunerative ; but 

 the Arab curse still continues, and though, now that the sea- 

 board is partially occupied by Europeans, greater difficulty 

 will be placed in its way, I am of opinion that through the 

 avarice and cupidity of man African and European it will 

 not entirely disappear so long as there is any ivory left. That 

 once exhausted, is there anything else worth bringing a ten- 

 mile journey to the coast ? 



In the late very cool partitioning of Africa we may con- 

 gratulate ourselves in having obtained possession of Mashona- 

 land, a district healthy enough for colonisation, and apparently 

 rich enough to repay it. The tsetse, that great enemy to the 

 cattle-breeder, will disappear before the approach of civilisa- 

 tion, and the killing off of the game, especially the buffalo, 

 its standing dish, as it has done many times already in African 

 lore. I am speaking of the tracts south of the Zambesi. Of 

 tropical lands to the north I >know nothing, save from what I 

 read and am told, and I cannot yet see how they are to be 

 settled. Fever and general unhealthiness must weight immi- 

 gration heavily, and even if the country is capable of supplying 

 the needs of the world in the future, what philanthropic society 

 will subsidise the workers until the industries are developed ? 

 It must be remembered the greatest prophylactics in an evil 

 climate are movement, and its consequent excitement, and change 

 of scene the settler dies where the traveller lives. The rail- 



