42 Wild Life in Central Africa. 



the heads shot in Uganda than the usual type of this country, 

 which are seldom wide. 



Again, Mr. Melland, of the Northern Rhodesian Adminis- 

 tration, shot a grand bull elephant with a single "400 bullet 

 before he noticed the size of the ivory. It ran off hard hit 

 and was found later, and its tusks weighed close on i2olb., 

 but they dried to about u61b. 



Many men who have never killed an animal of a certain 

 species sometimes have the luck to get a very fine trophy 

 at the first go off, and not long ago a friend of mine (Mr. 

 W. P. Ronaldson) went to the Chiromo Marsh to shoot r 

 and on his first day bagged two large lions. Now, I have 

 been there several times, and I have heard lions roaring 

 and grunting at night, but I have not had the luck to 

 meet any in that locality, although it is a famed haunt of 

 these large felines. I could give many other instances of 

 men getting fine trophies or shooting some rare species 

 (such as the inyala) purely by chance. I would give 

 something to shoot an inyala, but as yet I have not seen 

 one alive, and yet several men, some of whom have had 

 slight experience, have been fortunate enough to shoot 

 one in Nyasaland. 



So it is in many circumstances of life, for those who 

 want a thing do not get it, and those who care not are 

 more fortunate. 



At a certain moment one man may be soaked with rain, 

 and at the same moment another man somewhere else on 

 the face of the globe may be dying of thirst. It is a world 

 of contrasts, but to meet them one has usually to go to the 

 wild, unfenced wilderness. Those whose untamed spirits 

 urge them to travel such country usually see the best and 

 the worst, for their lives are spent amongst vivid contrasts. 

 This spirit the Germans aptly call it "wanderlust/' I 

 think dwells in the hearts of many at home who must 

 long, at times, to get to the vast spaces of the earth. Those 

 are the lucky ones who can go and return as they wish. 

 Sometimes it is possible to get too much of the wilds, for 

 comforts are rare and discomforts common. I think, 



