no BIG GAME SHOOTING 



gold, and they were considered specifics for half a dozen deadly 

 ills, among them ' the loss of one's intestines,' as Pliny calls a 

 malady which it is to be hoped has since disappeared. 



In the Middle Ages, before the invention of gunpowder, the 



Emperor Maximilian I. chamois hunting A.D. 1500 (from ' Theuerdank ') 



chase of the chamois must have been infinitely more arduous 

 than it is to-day. They were usually stalked, and were killed 

 either with the cross-bow or with spears thrown like javelins. 

 These were shafts 9 ft. long with thin tapering lance points, 



