WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



II 



With the lassoing of the giraffe our luck seemed 

 to have come to an end, at least for the time being. 

 There was a long, waterless stretch of undulating 

 country, covered for the most part with low scrub, 

 in which we saw practically no game. The cowboys 

 were always on the alert, and it is safe to say that no 

 reasonable chance was lost: yet when we outspanned 

 at nights the same unused roll of film was stiU in the 

 camera. 



It was most disappointing. Almost anywhere else 

 we should have been practically sure of sport, but now, 

 by some unlucky chance, we seemed to have struck 

 the worst possible road. Of course, wagons hamper 

 you enormously on a trip such as the one we were 

 making ; they compel you to keep within certain 

 narrow limits, and I should advise everyone to do 

 without them as far as possible. For heavy transport 

 work the bullock-wagon is absolutely unequalled, 

 and in the old days the early hunters, like 

 Mr. F. C. Selous, working many hundreds of miles 

 away from their base, could not depend on carriers 

 only ; but to-day, when the hunter is merely a 

 sportsman and not a pioneer, the carrier is usually 

 quite sufficient for his requirements. 



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