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never once did he lose sight of it during the whole 

 of the journey. 



M. Germain Bapst, in his Menwires d'un Siecle, 

 tells us that Marshal Canrobert once met Jules 

 Gerard, shortly after that French hunter had been 

 made an officer, and asked him if he intended to 

 give up killing lions. " C'est impossible," said the 

 celebrated lion-killer : " ga, me prend comme la fievre; 

 alors il faut absolument que j'aille a I'affut. Si cette 

 fievre me reprend, je serai oblige de recommencer. 

 Qui a bu boira." M. Foa is no exception 

 to this rule. Once a man is seized with a passion 

 for hunting, it never leaves him. As will many 

 times be seen in reading After Big Game in Central 

 Africa, no one could well show more devotion to 

 his pursuit than M. FO&, has shown. Ably assisted 

 by those native hunters of whom he speaks so highly, 

 Tambarika, the skilled tracker of game, Tchigallo, 

 the cool-headed, Rodzani, the tenacious, and Msiambiri, 

 the ever-cheerful he went about his work with a 

 systematic thoroughness which could only result in 



success. 



FJJEDERIC LEES. 



Paris, 1899. 



