CHAPTER VII. 

 MEMORIES OF BIG GAME HUNTING. 



Old shooting experiences a pleasant memory Game plentiful near the 

 Luangwa River Giraffes Leopard seen Lion followed into thick 

 grass Bird life on the Luangwa River Vultures spotting game 

 Natives eating rotten meat Crocodiles A native taken by a crocodile 

 Fish and their poor eating qualities Mushrooms and other edible 

 fungi Shoot a fine impala ram Waterbuck plentiful Bad climate 

 near the Luangwa River Great heat and thunderstorms Wound a 

 bull elephant He charges and is killed Garden-feeding elephants Hit 

 a tuskless bull elephant A cow proves nasty Thorn thickets 

 inhabited by game Follow elephants which run off and swim the 

 Luangwa River Kill six hippo Track and shoot a bull rhino Close 

 quarters with a rhino A good rhino horn Go a trip to the Chiromo 

 Marsh Follow a wounded buffalo bull for six hours and kill him 

 The haunt of the inyala antelope in Nyasaland Kill a very fine 

 reedbuck ram Chiromo district a good game country Thorn country 

 and the Tuchila Plain Shoot a large eland bull Bag some sable 

 antelope Difficulty of preserving specimens in damp weather A good 

 kudu specimen spoiled by a native Thorns and sharp grass Shooting 

 in bare legs Wound, track, and kill a hartebeest bull. 



MY memory often carries me back to some lovely game 

 country and the exciting sport I experienced there, and 

 one of the most lovely of them all was the vicinity of 

 the Luangwa River in North-Eastern Rhodesia. The 

 Luangwa is a very large river, especially in the rains, as it 

 drains a vast extent of country. In the dry season many of 

 the smaller rivers and streams dry up and when seeing 

 them at this time it is difficult to believe that they can 

 develop into rushing torrents of great force. I am now 

 living on the head waters of the Bua River which is 

 usually a quietly running stream about 3oft. across. As 

 I write this (March 23, 1913) after about twelve hours' 



