PREFACE 



THE following pages do not pretend to relate 

 any very long or adventurous hunting trips ; 

 most of the sport described conies within reach 

 of the great majority of subalterns. As, however, 

 my career in that capacity gave me consider- 

 able opportunities of making the acquaintance of 

 big game in several parts of the world oppor- 

 tunities of which I availed myself to the best 

 of my powers I have thought it worth while 

 to copy out my diaries that I always kept up 

 on hunting trips, and commit them to print. 

 My thanks are due to Major-General H. R. 

 Abadie, C.B., for allowing me to use some photo- 

 graphs taken by his son, the late Captain G. H. 

 F. Abadie, C.M.G., during our hunts together 

 in Borgu. I am also indebted to the editor of 

 the Badminton Magazine for leave to reproduce 

 some articles that have already appeared in its 

 pages. 



I am not writing about soldiering, and for this 

 reason it may appear to take rather a " back 



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