CHAPTER XVI 



RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION 



The imperfect description of the game families 

 and the sporting advantages of the immense 

 region of Zambezia contained in the foregoing 

 pages will, I sincerely hope, demonstrate to the 

 host of sportsmen who annually leave the United 

 Kingdom in search of big game the fact that it is 

 one which very seriously merits their attention, 

 and this not solely and entirely for the large 

 number of animals it contains, but for the little 

 that is known of this attractive and beautiful 

 portion of the African continent. 



Sport and travel are terms which of late years 

 have become so closely associated that the former, 

 in the judgment of many, largely depends upon 

 the amount of interest afforded by the regions in 

 which it is enjoyed. Where, for example, would 

 any attraction be found to lie if the number of 

 wild animals secured during an average successful 

 journey to Africa could, by the ministrations of 

 some enterprising purveyor, be shot, say, in the 

 Essex marshes ? Nobody would do it. It would 

 not be worth while. But when, to a fine col- 

 lection of interesting and beautiful trophies, is 

 added the glamour of having obtained them in 



almost unknown, wild, and romantic surroundings 



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