TRIALS WITH THE SMALL-BORE RIFLE CHANGE OF 

 DISTRICT COMMENCEMENT OF SPORT 



Shooting in the neighbourhood of Chiromo Eland, hippopotamus, and 

 crocodile Encampment on the Upper Kapoche Wild nature The 

 fula Buffalo-hunting The man-eater His death. 



THERE was hardly any big game in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of our Chiromo camp. Opposite, on 

 the left bank of the river, there was indeed a plain 

 where unfortunate buffaloes, persisting in stopping 

 there, were slaughtered, sportsmen of the locality 

 firing upon them while smoking their pipes in ham- 

 mocks carried by shrieking men in white shirts and 



