CHAPTER XXIV 
BIG GAME SHOOTING 
So many and such excellent books have been 
written on this subject that there is little indeed that 
can be added. Moreover, even had I the ability, 
which is assuredly not the case, there is certainly not 
the scope in this work for anything very elaborate. It 
will be merely my aim to show, as far as I can, where 
and how the settler and visitor can get as much sport 
as possible out of the splendid list of game animals 
which inhabit the Protectorate, together with a few 
hints for those sportsmen who are at present novices 
in the art. There are, however, a few phases of the 
sport, past, present, and future, which may be dwelt on 
without disadvantage. 
In the first days of shooting in the Protectorate, 
that is in the days before the completion of the rail¬ 
way and the establishment of the game licence, when 
such great sportsmen as Lord Delamere, Sir Robert 
Harvey, Sir John Willoughby, Messrs. F. J. Jackson, 
Hunter, and others came up or down, an expedition 
into the country was a vastly different undertaking 
from the same task nowadays. Such expeditions were 
embarked on, not only with the idea of sport for sport 
alone, but with the added and higher attractions of 
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