VIU PRE FA CE. 



I regret that I have been unable to give the book a more scientific aspect. The 

 whole of it was written in the field, and so books of reference were an impossibility. 



I must here acknowledge my indebtedness to those friends who have given me 

 photographs or rendered me other help. 



Especially are my most grateful thanks due to my aunt, Mrs. Edgar Clark, for 

 the patience and skill with which she has cajoled my ill-taken films into revealing 

 what they really saw through the camera's eye. I feel sure that whatever success 

 this book may achieve will largely be attributable to her valuable aid in connection 

 with it. 



Unfortunately my friend, D. D. Lyell, with whom I collaborated in my book on 

 Central African Game, has been unable to work with me again. He has very kindly, 

 however, made out the reduced drawings of spoor to be found in Chapter VIII. 



Owing to being unexpectedly delayed on a journey through Abyssinia I returned 

 home to find the printing of this book so far advanced that it was impossible to make 

 corrections and check a certain amount of repetition. 



C. H. STIGAND. 

 Congo Free State, 



August, 191 2. 



