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BIG GAME SHOOTING 
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to get a representative bag than formerly. Again, 
although there are some, there must be very few 
sportsmen who would not rather indulge in their sport 
in reasonable comfort. Up to the last year, as each 
year has passed bags of game have got better, that is 
to say, variety greater and the average of heads 
better; while the difficulties, dangers and discomforts 
have got less, till at the present time a lady of active 
habits and a tolerably straight eye, accompanied by 
one of the numerous class of white hunters, can in a 
couple of months obtain a bag altogether beyond the 
wildest dreams of the toughest and most adventurous 
of the old pioneers. 
The present is the day of the sportsman, of the man 
of riches, of the “ white hunter,’’ and of the record 
breaker whom we can generally identify with the 
American. The sportsman may include, and often 
does, all the rest, but more often than not he is 
unaccompanied by wealth, white hunters, or the desire 
to break records. The Protectorate is now very largely 
known and explored, and the game is, as I shall show, 
very widely distributed ; but certain well-known routes 
still hold by far the largest numbers and variety of game, 
and it is all along these that naturally the white hunter 
usually takes his clients. Among such routes are : 
along the Thika river till it joins the Tana, and then 
along the Tana to the new Embu Bridge, across 
Likipia to Rumunuti and so along the N. Guaso 
Nyero river, up to and around Embu, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Simba and Makindu, across the Uasin 
Guishu plateau and along the Nzoia river, through the 
Loieta plains to the Amala river and the German 
boundary, or along the S. Guaso Nyero. Along 
these routes the white hunters hurry their employers, 
