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CHAPTER VI 



EAST AFRICA BATTERY, DRESS, CAMP GEAR AND STORES 

 BY F. J. JACKSON 



THE pursuit of big game in the Africa of fifty years ago has 

 already been graphically described in the foregoing pages by 

 the late Mr. W. C. Oswell ; but, as the editor of these volumes 

 considers that something ought to be written here of more 

 modern sport in that country, and as the style of hunting has 

 altered somewhat since my collaborator's time, I have accepted 

 an invitation to describe East African sport as it is to-day, and 

 to furnish such advice and guidance as may prove serviceable 

 to others contemplating a shooting expedition to my old hunt- 

 ing grounds. 



The nature of the big game in East Africa can have altered 

 little, except in those parts of the country which have, within 



