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and who may be contemplating a shooting 

 excursion into the remoter portions of Portuguese 

 East Africa, may well be asking which particular 

 district they should select as the scene of their 

 sport. My reply to this is that one of the dis- 

 tricts north of the Zambezi is calculated in the 

 present aspect of the country as a whole to give 

 the best results. Personally, if I were to return 

 to Portuguese East Africa for a final sojourn in 

 the wilds, I should make Quelimane my base of 

 departure into the interior. Throughout this 

 little-known region practically every animal de- 

 scribed in this book may be found, and in some 

 of the divisions, notably in Lugella, Boror, and 

 the Alto M'lokwe, very little shooting has taken 

 place. Moreover, although game is abundant, I 

 am unaware of the presence of tsetse flies, whilst 

 for those to whom such considerations appeal, the 

 scenery of the interior of this attractive district 

 is beautiful and striking in the extreme. 



The courses of the Zambezi and Shire Rivers 

 have been for so many years frequented by 

 steamers and barges that, except in one or 

 two circumscribed areas, the game has largely 

 retired ; but above the confluence of the Shire 

 fine shooting may be found practically all the 

 way, upon the north bank, up to the Lupata 

 Gorge. South of Tete the extensive, healthy 

 region of the Barue, described in my book 

 Zambezia, is an excellent game country into 

 which an ideal hunting expedition may be 

 undertaken, whilst a number of splendid types, 

 exclusive, however, of elephant and rhinoceros, 



