BIG GAME SHOOTING 
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CHAPTER I 
ON BIG GAME SHOOTING GENERALLY 
By CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY 
Ir may be asked, as to these volumes, why ‘Big Game 
_ Shooting’ should find a place in a series devoted to British 
Sports and pastimes, whereas, except the red deer, there is no 
big game in Great Britain ? 
It is true that there is no big game left in Britain ; but if the 
game is not British, its hunters are, and it is hardly too much 
to say that, out of every ten riflemen wandering about the world 
at present from Spitzbergen to Central Africa, nine are of the 
Anglo-Saxon breed. 
It may be asked, again, what justification there ts for the 
1 Springbuck. *Steinbuck. 5 Blesbuck. ‘4 Reedbuck. 
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