Dead buffalo 
CHAPTER VI 
EAST AFRICA—BATTERY, DRESS, CAMP GEAR AND STORES 
By F. J. Jackson 
THE pursuit of big game in the Africa of fifty years ago has 
already been graphically described in the foregoing pages by 
the late Mr. W. C. Oswell; but, as the editor of these volumes 
considers that something ought to be written here of more 
modern sport in that country, and as the style of hunting has 
altered somewhat since my collaborator’s time, I have accepted 
an invitation to describe East African sport as it is to-day, and 
to furnish such advice and guidance as may prove serviceable 
to others contemplating a shooting expedition to my old hunt- 
ing grounds. 
The nature of the big game in East Africa can have altered 
little, except in those parts of the country which have, within 
