PREFACE 
The experiences of other wandering hunters have always 
had so much interest for me, that I have ventured, 
perhaps presumptuously, to conclude that my own may 
possibly be thought worthy of perusal by those with 
similar savage tastes. Even then I should hardly have 
made bold to wield so unaccustomed a weapon as the 
pen, were it not that my elephant-hunting has been 
done in regions hitherto unvisited by the hunter. This 
circumstance, and the fact that my account is of quite 
recent adventures, describing faithfully, to the best of 
my ability, the country and game as they actually are 
to-day—an important quality in the value of such matter 
—may, I hope, tend to justify my present more daring 
enterprise. For, although I have hunted in South Africa 
while yet the “ high veldt ” was black with wildebeeste 
and the “bush veldt” still teemed with wild beasts, is 
not A Hunter s Wanderings —to go no farther back in 
the classics of big game—too unapproachably fascinating 
as a latest record of elephant-hunting there to admit of 
rivals in that field? And for descriptions of a more 
recent search for sport in the southern portion of the 
continent, have we not the charming volume of Mr. 
J. G. Millais, who to a facile pen adds the enormous 
