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tage to possess some smattering of the language 

 of the country which they inhabit. A sports- 

 man will be much looked up to who can talk 

 airily in East Africa of such things as hiteweo, 

 neapara, potosi ; in India, of howdahs, jemadars, 

 khitinagars, kummerbunds, jinrikshas ; in South 

 Africa, of biltongs, disselbooms, veldtschoen, don- 

 kerhocks, sjamboks, and aasvogels ; in Red India, 

 of wigwams, -fire-water. Tee-pees, pocahontas ; 

 and so on. I will not attempt to explain the 

 meanings of these various phrases, partly 

 because they have for the moment escaped my 

 memory, but chiefly because this is a volume 

 on sport, and not a slang dictionary. 



The hunter's medicine-chest should contain 

 a plentiful supply of tourniquets, splints, and 

 bandages, as well as the more ordinary lotions, 

 sedatives, and plasters of domestic hygiene. 

 Owing to the carelessness of inexperienced 

 sportsmen, it may at times be necessary to deal 

 with those serious bullet-wounds upon which 

 the blue pill and the bottle of embrocation 

 exercise but little remedial effect. That such 

 injuries are common there exists ample evi- 

 dence to prove. As an example of the risks 

 which sportsmen run, we may cite the well- 

 known story of the American hunter w^hose zeal 

 so far outran his discretion that he could 

 never see anything moving in the jungle with- 



