vi Great and Small Game of Africa 



century of life in the African wilderness — and the volume is to be looked 

 upon not only as a work of natural history, but as in some respects the 

 faithful chronicle of the present generation of sportsmen in the great 

 hunting-grounds of the various regions of Africa. The average sportsman 

 and traveller in Africa can only hope to exploit a comparatively small area 

 of that vast and difficult continent ; but by the aid of this book both he 

 and the home- dwelling reader may, conducted by experienced guides, 

 ramble from one hunting-veld to another, and survey at will the wonderful 

 animal life of the most splendid sporting country the world has ever seen. 



Mr. Rowland Ward has been fortunate in securing contributors from 

 every part of Africa, and the value of this record is thereby much enhanced. 

 From West Africa few details of sport have hitherto reached this country ; 

 but, thanks to the contributions of Major A. J. Arnold and others, this 

 gap has been more than reasonably well filled. 



Many of the articles have been written in the depths of Africa itself, 

 in places and under conditions where a high literary or technical excellence 

 can scarcely be expected. As a whole, however, the work has suffered 

 but little from these drawbacks ; the average modern big- game sports- 

 man having long since proved himself, even under circumstances of much 

 difficulty, a competent literary craftsman. 



The publisher is greatly indebted to Lord Delamere for a series of 

 many interesting photographs, taken during his recent two years' expedition 

 into the unexplored regions of East and North-East Africa. These 

 photographs are in many respects unique, and may be looked upon as 

 among the first successful attempts to depict with the camera African great 

 game in their native haunts. Thanks are also due to the Duchess of 

 Bedford and Mr. Poulett-Weatherley for several photographs in the text. 

 Mr. C. D. Rudd has, in addition, been good enough to supply photographs of 

 various animals taken in his park at Fernwood, Newlands, near Cape Town. 



The scientific side of the work is considerably enhanced by the brief 



