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do not come anywhere near the official record, as 

 locah'ty has a great bearing on the length and size 

 of horn, and though a record may have been shot, 

 say, in Central Africa, of a certain antelope, the whole 

 of the species might be shot, say, in South Africa, 

 and not one would come anywhere near the Central 

 African specimens. So that district records should 

 be looked for, and if general records are to be 

 obtained, the hunter must obviously, in most cases, 

 visit that district from which the record has been 

 brought, though of course there is no guarantee that 

 a record may not be shot right away from the 

 locality where the present record has come from. 



In the measuring of trophies, especially with deer, 

 some judgment and common sense must be exercised, 

 and the larger the animal the less should the hunter 

 consider ^ or even J inches in comparing heads ; as 

 if half a dozen men measured a large horn, probably 

 not any two of them would get quite the same 

 result. 



Cutting up Game, etc. — Almost at the eleventh 

 hour it has been thought that a few remarks on how 

 to cut up game, and a few hints on camp cooking, 

 might be extremely useful to the would-be hunter. 



It will frequently be found that one's hired cookboy 

 is lamentably deficient in practical methods, and if 

 only the white man himself has some knowledge of 

 how to cook things in the way in which he likes 

 them, he can teach the boy, and it is remarkable how 



