i 4 2 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



years of my life, for I thought they might possibly 

 have come all the way from Southern Africa, since 

 year. after year I had seen large numbers of storks 

 appear in Matabeleland, and even farther south, dur- 

 ing January and February, when the rainy season 

 was at its height and frogs were plentiful. 



With my return to Smyrna, my six weeks' wander- 

 ings in a wild and interesting country came to an 

 end, but it will be long before the vision of the snow- 

 covered mountains, grand and beautiful, alike both in 

 sunshine and storm, fades from my memory ; and in 

 my dreams, I often still pursue the great grey stags 

 in those wild solitudes, and sometimes stand exultant 

 beside the fresh-slain form of a mighty antlered mon- 

 arch of the mountains, a very giant of his kind. 

 Will that vision always be a dream? Time alone 

 can tell ; but time is against me, as it is against all 

 whose best days are past. 



