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An African Shooting Trip 



natives on the coast know how to make them 

 up very well. 



This shooting was done in a very dry coun- 

 try, thickly covered with mimosa, and we were 

 obliged to send a good way for water, which 

 the rhinoceros really does not seem to care 

 much about. We became acquainted here 

 with the so-called rhinoceros bird — a small, 

 insignificant bird, with a harsh, piercing cry 

 that immediately arrests attention. He does 

 not, by any means, always take you to rhino- 

 ceros ; but, if you follow him long enough, he 

 is pretty sure to bring you to game, a honey 

 tree, a camp of hostile natives, or something 

 else equally interesting. 



We were told of a place, about a day's 

 march away, where lions abounded ; in fact, 

 though it was the only district in that country 

 where there was good green grass for graz- 

 ing, none of the natives dared take their 

 herds of camels there, as one man, who had 

 recently ventured to do so, lost several camels 

 by lions, and immediately withdrew. On the 

 way to these attractive hunting grounds, A. 

 D. S. shot his first lion — a fine, large one. I 

 was fortunate in getting a leopard at the same 

 place ; and the accompanying photograph 



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