viii FOREWORD 



I revisited Africa after an interval of twenty-three years. 

 It gives me intense pleasure to recall the delicate tact 

 with which he introduced me to the latest developments 

 of scientific sport. And all done without a twinge 

 to my vanity, or damage to some little reputation 

 which an old native had untruthfully rubbed into 

 our carriers before we started. Indeed, it was with 

 a shock — so gradual was my lesson — that I made the 

 discovery one night, when yarning round the camp- 

 fire, that I had grown to allude to my old methods 

 in much the same sorrowing fashion that one talks 

 of the bow and arrow, armour, and other relics of 

 the past. 



I have made (and led) many expeditions in my day, 

 and never have I enjoyed myself more than under 

 the up-to-date leadership of our author. He may tempt 

 me, once again, to shoot, but never to write. I shall 

 therefore now stop, merely expressing the opinion 

 that modern weapons, light equipment, and portable 

 food in tins have done much to add to the enjoyment 

 and lessen the hardships of big-game shooting, without 

 diminishing its manliness ; and to counsel all who 

 have the opportunity (i) to make an expedition, and 

 (2) to pay close attention to the excellent advice given 

 in the following pages by one whom I am proud 

 to call " my young friend." He knows his subject 

 as few know it ; and that he is himself a true sports- 

 man, in the best sense of the word, is guaranteed by 



"AN OLD UN." 



