PREFACE 



The experiences of other wandering hunters have always 

 had so much interest for me, that I have ventured, 

 perhaps presumptuously, to conclude that my own may 

 possibly be thought worthy of perusal by those with 

 similar savage tastes. Even then I should hardly have 

 made bold to wield so unaccustomed a weapon as the 

 pen, were it not that my elephant-hunting has been 

 done in regions hitherto unvisited by the hunter. This 

 circumstance, and the fact that my account is of quite 

 recent adventures, describing faithfully, to the best of 

 my ability, the country and game as they actually are 

 to-day — an important quality in the value of such matter 

 — may, I hope, tend to justify my present more daring 

 enterprise. For, although I have hunted in South Africa 

 while yet the " high veldt " was black with wildebeeste 

 and the "bush veldt" still teemed with wild beasts, is 

 not A Hunter s Wanderings — to oo no farther back in 

 the classics of big game — too unapproachably fascinating 

 as a latest record of elephant-hunting there to admit of 

 rivals in that field } And for descriptions of a more 

 recent search for sport in the southern portion of the 

 continent, have we not the charming volume of Mr. 

 J. G. Millais, who to a facile pen adds the enormous 



