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A MASAI THROWING HIS SPEAR. 



IX 

 After Elephants with Wandorobo 



** T) IG game hunting is a fine education!" With this 

 JJ opinion of Mr. H. A. Bryden I am in entire 

 agreement, but I cannot assent to the dictum so often cited 

 of some of the most experienced African hunters, to the 

 effect that Equatorial East Africa offers the sportsman no 

 adequate compensation for all the difficulties and dangers 

 there to be faced. 



I cannot subscribe to this view, because to my mind 

 these very difficulties and dangers impart to the sport of 

 this region a fascination scarcely to be equalled in any 

 other part of the world. It is only in tropical Africa that 

 you will find the last splendid specimens of an order of 

 wild creation surviving from other eras of the earth's 

 history. It is not to be denied that you must pay a high 

 price for the joy of hunting them. That goes without 



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