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Notes on South African Hunting. 
Route. 
necessary to inflict such a blow upon them as 
momentarily to stun them. This end cannot 
be attained with a conical bullet. I have 
recommended a *500 express to be included in 
the battery, as for all soft skinned game it is 
quite powerful enough ; and with a shot gun 
one can always amuse oneself with the fran- 
colin, etc. I do not mean, of course, to lay 
down that any other battery, or any larger 
battery, is necessarily wrong. But I think 
that the above will be found to be the best and 
smallest battery for all-round shooting. It is 
useful to know that 8 parts of tin to 100 of 
lead is the usual hardening proportion. 
On landing at Capetown, duty of £j. per 
barrel has to be paid to the Custom house 
authorities, and also a duty on cartridges. 
Leaving Capetown one goes by rail to Kim¬ 
berley, a journey of some 700 miles odd. 
The other route by Durban, and thence 
north through the Transvaal is sometimes 
pursued ; but I do not know that it possesses 
any particular advantages. 
At Kimberley (or Durban) the next thing is 
to get a wagon or two, oxen, drivers and 
