CHAPTER II. 

 SHOOTING IN CENTRAL ANGONILAND (NYASALAND). 



A slight description of Central Angoniland Nyasaland well watered and 

 thickly bushed The rainy and dry seasons Grass fires Cold at night 

 Plateaux in Nyasaland Distance walked in Central Africa Some 

 rules for hunting Two elands shot One wounded and found dead 

 Pain suffered by wounded beasts Vital shots at game Tenacity of 

 life in game Elephants and rhinos easy to kill Mr. Selous's opinion 

 of tenacity of life in lions The first bullet the all-important one 

 Close quarters best with dangerous game Fine sable antelope shot 

 Horns and ivory shrinking with age and heat Natives' fondness for 

 meat The best country for large sable heads Eland cow and bull 

 shot Good cow eland horns Remarks on hunting game Three 

 zebras killed Zebra meat causing rash Cutting the throats of game 

 Good hunting tribes Search for an elephant Hartebeest shot 

 Vegetable nuisances Some good kudu heads got in Central Africa 

 Abundance of kudu. 



CENTRAL ANGONILAND is perhaps one of the best game 

 countries left in Africa, as it is still in the same primeval 

 condition as it was before the whites came to the country 

 some twenty years ago. As I will enumerate the game in 

 later chapters, I will only say that nearly all the species 

 known to exist in Nyasaland are found here, and the only 

 species that are absent are the Nyasaland gnu and the 

 inyala. The puku is found on the Bua River, the only 

 locality where it is known to exist here ; although it is 

 extremely abundant in the adjoining territory of North- 

 Eastern Rhodesia. 



The topographical aspects of the country are on the 

 whole a vast undulating extent of bush, with a dambo here 

 and there, and many hills. I have mentioned before that 

 the word " dambo " means a grassy space, sometimes clear 

 of trees, but often with bushes or trees here and there, and 



