IV. PREFACE. 



day. He describes it in a letter home as "a 

 very hard country to work; plenty of lion and 

 rhino, but no antelope to speak of. Dense 

 thorn-bush and dense grass high overhead. It 

 was very hard and very disappointing work, 

 continually disturbing your beasts within a few 

 yards and seeing nothing. You could not force 

 your way through the jungle without noise, and 

 they let you come pretty close and then slipped 

 away." 



It must be borne in mind by the readers of 

 these diaries that they are only rough jottings 

 of sport, and perhaps were not intended to be 

 printed, but they will no doubt be valued for 

 the sake of one who, during his short life, had 

 made so many sincere friends. 



K. M. A. 



Sussex, 1894. 



