After Big Game in Central Africa 



CHAPTER I 



ARMS AND OUTFIT 



Large-bore arms : Express and Metford Their ammunition Various pro- 

 jectiles, their respective values and uses Explosive bullet useless The 

 expansive bullet Varieties of sights and locks Rockets Traps 

 Luminous sights, Bengal lights, various accessories Telescope and 

 niglit field -glass Water-bottles Dress and hunting outfit Photo- 

 graphic apparatus The departure. 



BEFORE entering upon my subject I must tell the 

 reader of the arms and equipment which I took for 

 this expedition, with a view to shooting animals which 

 inhabit Central Africa, including the elephant, rhino- 

 ceros, hippopotamus, lion, leopard, panther, giraffe, 

 buffalo, antelopes of several species, wart-hog, and wild 

 boar, hyena, and certain smaller carnivorous animals. 

 I am still of the same opinion on the subject of 

 large-bore weapons, 1 and if you possess neither 12- 

 bore nor 8 -bore rifles I do not advise you to buy them 

 unless you are certain of visiting a country where 

 elephants abound, and those countries are becoming, 

 alas, more and more difficult to find. Amid certain 

 circumstances, however, these weapons may be use- 

 ful. As I was to travel through parts of Central 



1 See Mes Grandes Clutsses, pp. 331, 332. 



