INTRODUCTORY. 



THIS book is a simple account of the ripe experience of 

 ten years spent in Central Africa, which is the tract of 

 country known as Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia. 

 The former protectorate used to be known as British 

 Central Africa, and the latter territory is now amalgamated 

 with North-Western Rhodesia, known collectively as 

 Northern Rhodesia, to distinguish it from Southern 

 Rhodesia, which embraces the old-time territories of 

 Matabeleland and Mashonaland. 



For the last ten years I have spent a wandering sort of 

 life in Nyasaland and North-Eastern Rhodesia, so, to get 

 a short and descriptive title, I use the title " Wild Life in 

 Central Africa." 



I am afraid this is rather a disjointed kind of volume, 

 digressions are frequent, and possibly there is a certain 

 amount of repetition. For this I can only plead that I 

 have suffered much from malarial fever, both in India and 

 Central Africa, and my memory is such that I sometimes 

 forget what I have written soon afterwards. 



Some people may think that this is rather a matter-of- 

 fact kind of volume; but, then, I am a matter-of-fact sort 

 of person, and dislike embellishing my writing with fanciful 

 or fictitious matter, or to read such literature written by 

 other authors on sport and travel. 



These pages are intended for the nomad big-game 

 hunter, who loves to get away from the beaten track, 

 where he can be free of the irksome conventionalities of 

 civilised life, and where he can find a freedom that is 

 impossible in more settled countries. 



