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CHAPTER IX 
HINTS ON EAST AFRICAN STALKING, DRIVING, ETC. 
By F. J. Jackson 
In East Africa, up to the present, all shooting has been done 
entirely on foot, as horses have not yet been introduced into 
the country, with the exception of two or three which have been 
sent up to Uganda. It is to be hoped that when horses are 
more generally employed (and there is no reason at present 
_ known why they should not be, provided the belts of ‘fly’ 
_ country are avoided), they will not be used in the pursuit of the 
__ herds of game, as they have been and still are in South Africa 
and the Somali country. There can be little doubt that 
it is owing to this almost universal custom in South Africa 
of riding down game that it has been exterminated or driven 
away from so many parts of the country; and it is not 
improbable that in the Somali country a similar result will fol- 
low from the same cause. When pursued on horseback, game 
is for the most part on the move when shot at, often at full 
gallop, and at much longer ranges than when stalked, and 
_ therefore many more beasts are wounded and lost when horses 
_ are used than when fairly outwitted by the stalker and shot at 
_when standing still. 
___ It is supposed by a good many people that the tsétsé fly 
only exists where game beasts, especially buffaloes, are most 
plentiful, and that the fly disappears as the game is killed off 
or driven away. This may be so in South Africa, but it is 
certainly not the case in East Africa, as the belts of fly country 
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