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land which has not as yet made the grandest of 

 sport on earth so overpoweringly business-hke a 

 business proposition. In Zambezia you can take 

 more time ; your expenses are considerably less ; 

 and there is not the smallest present possibility 

 of being jostled by some inconvenient European 

 with just as much right to be there as you have. 

 The region is too vast for that, and in addition to 

 its enormous area it fulfils in the most satisfying 

 manner one's preconceived and perhaps unspoken 

 conception of a great " Land of the Mountain and 

 the Flood." With regard to the climate, at the 

 the time of year when hunting would normally be 

 undertaken, it is as delightful as, with ordinary 

 care, it is harmless. 



Of course, with the exception of one or two 

 more favoured areas, game is rarely if ever seen 

 in the vast numbers in which one can gaze upon 

 it in the Rift Valley, or upon the plains between 

 Nairobi and Makindu ; but for my own part I 

 regard that as no great disadvantage. The man 

 who always seems to me to enjoy his hunting the 

 most is he who goes out in the morning without 

 the faintest idea of what he will find, but sure 

 that the day holds out something worth finding. 

 His path through the forest is unfailingly pursued 

 with that sustained interest to which such con- 

 ditions must of necessity give rise. Instead of 

 gazing across immensity, and seeing numberless 

 suspicious beasts upon the far horizon (if that 

 should be what they do in British East Africa), 

 he glances with redoubled interest and antici- 

 pation upon every thicket and into every glade. 



