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noblest trophies of the rifle may be secured both in 

 South Africa and East Africa, in India, and in North 

 America, further afield, it is true, than in the past, 

 but not further in point of time. Africa, for instance, 

 affords three main areas open to big-game shooters 

 Mashonaland, East Central Africa, and Somaliland. 

 Of these, Mashonaland is accessible by rail, either via 

 Mafeking or by Beira, and the Uganda railway will 

 soon open up the northern district. 



Portuguese South -East Africa also swarms with 

 game. The list of large animals exceeds thirty species, 

 including lions, leopards, cheetah, hippopotamus, ostrich, 

 sable-antelope, water-buck, koodoo, pallah, hartbeest, 

 bison, tsesseby, and many other of the finest game 

 animals in Africa. Somaliland is another, and perhaps 

 the favourite, haunt of the modern big-game shooter 

 in Africa. There he finds a hotter climate, and even 

 better, though more expensive, sport ; for camels must 

 be hired, and a large retinue maintained. Elephant, 

 black rhinoceros, and numbers of zebra of two species, 

 as well as a vast list of antelope, are to be found and 

 killed by any well-managed expedition. India seems 

 almost to be forgotten by big-game shooters leaving 

 England, and left to residents. Yet Indian sport has 

 on the whole rather expanded in kind and quality than 

 diminished. To the ' old-fashioned ' sport of our grand- 

 fathers, the splendid jungle- shooting recorded in such 



