XL. BIG GAME 



A CIRCULAR was lately issued to sportsmen, inviting 

 them to join in a big-game shooting expedition to 

 British East Africa. The particular district selected 

 as a hunting-ground was that round Mount Kenia, the 

 route being via Mombasa and the Uganda railway. 

 The advertised cost for twelve months was three 

 hundred pounds, which leaves rather a narrow margin 

 for contingencies ; and of the big game which figured 

 among the probable bag, one, the quagga, is extinct, 

 and another, the spring-buck, is not found north of 

 the Zambesi. But there is no doubt whatever that 

 in spite of the decrease of most big game in its old 

 haunts, there is in Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Natal, 

 the Northern States of America, and some parts ot 

 Arctic Europe, notably in Spitzbergen, abundance of 

 sport left, and sport of an unusual kind, accessible at 

 a moderate cost, and with no great loss of time on the 

 journey. Of the hunting-grounds of the future we 



say something later. But at the present moment the 



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