CHAPTER X 



TRACKERS AND TRACKING. RIFLES AND 

 AMMUNITION 



I do not propose to weary the reader with a 

 lengthy dissertation on tracking, an art which 

 is partly instinctive, partly acquired by experi- 

 ence, and is not to be learned from print. But 

 there are one or two points which are worth 

 noting by those who, perhaps, have not had 

 sufficient opportunity of following heavy game 

 to enable them to recognise at a glance tracks 

 which are worth taking on, and those which 

 are best left alone, and it is for such that this 

 chapter is intended. Old hands, therefore, will 

 please not scoff at advice which may seem to 

 them superfluous, but which I think will be 

 found to save the beginner many a weary and 

 fruitless tramp, and much vexation of spirit. 



When tracks are found there are four main 

 points to be considered, and it pays to take them 

 in the following order. (1) The approximate 

 date ; (2) the species of animals that has made 

 them, e.g. bison or tsaing; (3) the size of the 



