CHAPTER XXIV 



BIG GAME SHOOTING 



So many and such excellent books have been 

 written on this subject that there is little indeed that 

 can be added. Moreover, even had I the ability, 

 which is assuredly not the case, there is certainly not 

 the scope in this work for anything very elaborate. It 

 will be merely my aim to show, as far as I can, where 

 and how the settler and visitor can get as much sport 

 as possible out of the splendid list of game animals 

 which inhabit the Protectorate, together with a few 

 hints for those sportsmen who are at present novices 

 in the art. There are, however, a few phases of the 

 sport, past, present, and future, which may be dwelt on 

 without disadvantage. 



In the first days of shooting in the Protectorate, 

 that is in the days before the completion of the rail- 

 way and the establishment of the game licence, when 

 such great sportsmen as Lord Delamere, Sir Robert 

 Harvey, Sir John Willoughby, Messrs. F. J. Jackson, 

 Hunter, and others came up or down, an expedition 

 into the country was a vastly different undertaking 

 from the same task nowadays. Such expeditions were 

 embarked on, not only with the idea of sport for sport 



alone, but with the added and higher attractions of 



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