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instances will be found of the shooting of certain 

 of the larger types, but I have endeavoured to 

 subordinate actual hunting, which every sports- 

 man must conduct for himself according to his 

 own ideas, to a simple description of the various 

 members of the game families, their habits and 

 surroundings, drawn from my field notebooks 

 and my recollections of them, the greater part 

 of my manuscript having been written very 

 near to the scenes which it imperfectly describes. 

 1 trust, therefore, it will be found sufficiently 

 up to date to be of some slight value, not only 

 to my many hunting friends in various parts of 

 the world, but to those numerous representatives 

 of a virile younger generation of sportsmen 

 already knocking imperiously at the door. 



In the preparation of this volume I have 

 derived much assistance and refreshment of 

 memory from my friend Major Stevenson- 

 Hamilton's excellent work, Animal Life in Africa, 

 whilst to the most accomplished photographer 

 and sportsman of my acquaintance, Mr. G. 

 Garden of Mlanje, Nyasaland, my grateful thanks 

 are due for his excellent photographs, as for his 

 kind permission to publish them. Lastly, I 

 wish to express my indebtedness for my picture, 

 " A Fine Bag of Lions," to Mr. R. Wuilleumier, 

 sometime British Consular Agent at Quelimane. 



R. C. F. MAUGHAM. 



British Consulate GeneraLj 

 Liberia, 1913. 



