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Far in the interior the game is unlimited in quantity, 

 and the numbers are quite correctly spoken of by Harris, 

 Gumming, and other sportsmen. Any one anxious for pure 

 slaughter may there indulge his fancy to any extent ; but 

 I think that the amount of slain is no criterion of the 

 amount of sport. 



The sports of Africa are excellent as remedies against 

 attacks of ennui. Should any gentleman feel that he has 

 finished everything in Europe, and is disposed for sport 

 and excitement, let him at once give up white kids and 

 patents, and take to skin shoes and leather breeches ; lay 

 out a couple of hundreds in rifles, saddles, and powder, 

 and start for the wilds of South Africa. Thirty days 

 to Australia is now talked about, therefore twenty to 

 the Cape ought to be work easy enough. That man 

 must be composed of strange stuff who does not find a 

 new pleasure in stalking through tropical forests, well 

 stocked with elephants and other large game ; or in riding 

 over plains sprinkled with thousands of magnificent 

 antelopes ; in dodging the charge of an angry rhinoceros ; 

 or escaping the rush of a troop of elephants. 



There will be the excitement of midnight hazard, for 

 ivory is plentiful in Africa, although only in the rough at 

 present, while lions' teeth may be looked upon as the 

 " bones," and are nearly as fatal. And if the traveller is 

 not wide awake, the lion will carry off the stakes to a 

 certainty. 



A man who has passed through an African shooting 

 campaign, will find that his health is improved ; that he 

 is better able to help himself, has a greater trust in his 



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