INTRODUCTION 



JUDGING from experience, I think that there is but 

 little doubt as to the manner in which the majority 

 of people in Great Britain look upon foreign 

 sportsmen and their achievements. It would seem 

 to be only natural that it should be with a certain 

 misgiving. Englishmen have taken such a high 

 position in the domain of sport, and are so much 

 identified with everything sportsmanlike in conduct, 

 that we can well excuse those who, hearing that a 

 foreign sportsman has returned from a successful 

 expedition, doubt his ability to excel or even to 

 equal our countrymen, and promptly ask for an 

 explanation of the methods by which he attained 

 so remarkable a result. This question of methods 

 is, indeed, of paramount importance in all cases. 

 It would, therefore, have been with some diffidence 

 that I should have introduced these records of three 

 years' sport in Central Africa to English readers had 

 I not been personally acquainted with their author 

 and his methods, which are so Completely above 

 suspicion that I can recommend his pages with as 



