CHAPTER VI. 



TRACKING GAME, LICENCES, AND CAMP NOTES. 



Knowledge of tracking useful to the hunter Scarcity of blood spoor caused 

 by use of modern rifles The easiest time to track Difficult country to 

 spoor in The droppings a good guide to age of tracks Elephants 

 swallowing stones The usual method of hunting in Central Africa 

 Distinctive smell of different game Anthills useful for stalking Game 

 fond of ashes Fondness of game for high hills Sharp grass and other 

 vegetable nuisances Ticks Leeches in Africa and India A deadly 

 tea estate in India The best spots to hit game and the effects of such 

 wounds Animals helpless with back leg broken Tenacity of life in 

 game The best position for shooting Game plentiful near perennial 

 rivers in the dry season The extinction of garrie a difficult matter in 

 Central Africa Sleeping sickness and the best preventive for its 

 spread Licences and game allowance in Nyasaland, North-Eastern 

 Rhodesia, and British East Africa Poaching by white men A letter 

 quoted from the Field about German East Africa Remarks on game 

 protection Game reserves and their uses The cruelty of confining 

 wild creatures in cages The hardest sport in the world A few notes 

 on camp life Advice for a man who gets lost in the bush. 



IN previous volumes, particularly in " Central African 

 Game and its Spoor," by Captain C. H. Stigand and 

 myself, I have written a good deal about tracking, and 

 there is no doubt that a good knowledge of this interesting 

 part of big game hunting is necessary for any man who 

 wishes to become an expert hunter. 



Anyone who can walk well and hold a rifle fairly steady 

 will be able to shoot a lot of game ; but there are many 

 cases when a knowledge of spooring will help a man to 

 obtain a trophy that would be lost unless the hunter him- 

 self, or one of his native followers, be proficient in the art. 



A good tracker can read on the ground the recent 

 wanderings of game. Much lore on their habits can be 



