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" No, but I got a ripping Connochcetes albo- 

 jubatus." 



And so on. 



Therefore, as books destined for the hands 

 of the general reader should, in my opinion, 

 exclude matter and terms only intelligible to 

 persons possessed of special knowledge, I have 

 carefully omitted scientific names and references 

 from my pages, with the exception of my chapter 

 dealing with tsetse flies, where a rigid adherence 

 to this rule might have imperilled the clearness 

 of my text. It will even be observed that the 

 animals are not grouped in their respective 

 families, but follow each other very much in 

 the same order as in the mind of the un- 

 scientific reader. 



My object in drawing attention to Zambezia 

 as a hunting centre is twofold. First of all, I 

 desire to place before my shooting contemporaries 

 opportunities of spending a delightful and highly 

 profitable holiday in a portion of the African 

 continent but little mentioned in connection 

 with the pursuit of game, and thus enable them 

 to garner in their memories pleasing recollections 

 of a district whose name is all too seldom upon 

 the tongues of men ; and secondly, I write 

 largely out of a feeling of gratitude for the much 

 kindness and hospitality I have received at the 

 hands of its courteous colonists of all nation- 

 alities. 



It will perhaps be noticed that I have done 

 my best to make this a work descriptive of the 

 animals, and not of their slaughter. A few 



