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excitement of African wild sports naturally produced in liis l)reast. 

 I knew tlicm to be persons equally attached to the pleasures of 

 the chase with myself, hut generally unacquainted with African 

 story, which will account for the occasional introduction of informa- 

 tion derived from works already published. My journal having, 

 however, casually fallen into the hands of others, not sportsmen, 

 whose opinions I respect, and to whom it afforded gratification, I 

 have ventured to submit it to the public, being assured that my 

 habits of life, and occupation in the details of military duty, will 

 afford a ready excuse for the imperfections it contains, more particu- 

 larly when I add that it has passed through the press without my 

 personal corrections, and at a distance of some thousand miles from 

 the cantonment in which I am quartered. 



W. C. Harris. 



Bel^auni, 2\st Oct. 1840. 



