go Notes on South African Hunting, 
Selous and his hunting. 
hunters, and who make hunting more or less 
their business; but I have never heard of any 
excelling in their trade, like Mr. Selous and 
others have done, and do. 
He who begins to tell hunting adventures 
never stops, but I cannot resist saying some¬ 
thing about Mr. Selous. He went out to the 
Cape when quite a boy, and expended his 
worldly goods in buying a rifle. For many 
years he never used a horse at all, but did all 
his hunting on foot—a feat which would knock 
the sawdust out of most men in a week. 
He is, without exception, the best hunter 
that South Africa has ever seen. His adventures 
have, of course, been something extraordinary ; 
and I trust he will forgive me if I jot down the 
main facts of one or two of his nearest 
shaves ” as he told them me. 
One day he was hunting with two or three 
others, and they came across a lion on the edge 
of a ravine. Someone shot at him and wounded 
him, and he headed back down the ravine. Selous 
ran along the edge above him hoping to get a 
shot, and eventually broke his shoulder. The 
lion then went into the bush, and declined to 
