SPORT IN WAR 

 duyker, hares, wild-pig, quagga, and 

 twice our patrols saw giraffe. Then 

 of birds we saw ostriches and shot 

 paauw, korhan, so-called pheasants, 

 partridges, guinea-fowl, duck, and 

 plover. And in many of the streams 

 the men caught fish, which, though in 

 London they might be considered 

 somewhat overcharged with bones 

 and mud, yet served as a pleasing 

 variation to our daily fare of tinned 

 ration beef. 



The pleasures of the pursuit of 

 game were all the more enhanced by 

 the knowledge that the meat was 

 really necessary to us, and especially 

 by the fact that we often carried out 

 our sport at the risk of being our- 

 selves the quarry of some sneaking 

 band of rebel warriors. 

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