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if I were a professional politician I should be a Socialist 

 of a kind that very soon, in our time, will be the 

 usual type all over the world. At present, the Social- 

 ists, by going too far, by plucking the fruit ere it is 

 ripe, have brought ridicule on themselves and their 

 cause, and by associating themselves with nihilists, 

 anarchists, and destructionists generally, have alienated 

 the sympathy of all moderate, gradual, and practical 

 reformers. The days for revolutions have gone by, 

 and the reforms urgently required by almost every 

 European nation can take place without the painting 

 red of the great cities. 



Gracious ! I am digressing ! And talking like a 

 suffragette ! This is supposed to be a book on sport 

 — mostly. Other things will creep in, and come 

 crowding to my pen, crying, " Put me down ! Put me 

 down ! " But — a big But : did you ever know a 

 woman stick to the point ? 



Everywhere we came on ancient elephant tracks, 

 but I think it would have been difficult to find any 

 sort of a specimen. We heard of none having been 

 seen for years, yet it has always been understood 

 that at no distant time this part of the Haweea was a 

 resort for herds of the great pachyderms. 



We were now not more than a week's trek of the 

 east coast line. Wonderful ! Or we thought it so 

 who had marched from Berbera. At our next halt 

 we came on a lake, a real lake, a delightful spot, quite 

 a good-sized sheet of water, 125 yards or so across, 

 and formed in a basin of gypsum-like rock. We had 

 not seen so much water en masse since leaving the sea, 



