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much confidence as though they were written by one 

 of our own countrymen, whose authority to write on 

 so important and wide a subject as that of big-game 

 shooting we should not dare to question. 



After Big Game in Central Africa is a book 

 which appeals to a much wider audience than that of 

 sportsmen alone. Though it will be found to contain 

 a great deal of matter of incalculable value to those 

 who go to Africa in search of wild animals (practical 

 information about rifles, methods of beating districts 

 for game, and seasons, in short, everything which the 

 hunter will do well to know), the general reader will 

 find quite as much to interest him in the many 

 adventures which this French sportsman had with, 

 animals, in his glowing descriptions of the ever- 

 changing African scenery, in his account of three 

 years' pleasures and discouragements while crossing 

 Central Africa, A technical work for the sportsman 

 and a faithful account of incidents, grave and gay, 

 in the everyday life of a professional hunter such 

 was the object which the author sought to attain 

 in writing his book. 



For the better understanding of M. Edouard 

 Foa's pages, it will be as well to give here a few 

 details of that arduous journey which he made in 

 1894-97 across the Dark Continent, during which he 

 collected materials for this narrative a journey, by the 

 way, for which he was well equipped in every respect, 

 for there is no part of Africa over which he has not 



