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TO THE UASIN GISHIJ [ch. xn 
in the Nairobi Municipality Pound Book under date of 
August 6, 1909. In the column headed 44 Description 
of Animal ” is the entry, 44 1 zebra ” ; under the heading 
44 By whom impounded ” is the entry, 44 Major Smith, 
11.E.” ; under the heading 44 Remarks ” is the entry, 
44 Sold by Public Auctioneers, Raphael & Coy., on 
24/1/09.” 
We had with us several recent books on East African 
big game : Chapman’s 44 On Safari,” dealing alike with 
the hunting and the natural history of big game; 
Powell Cotton’s accounts of his noteworthy experiences 
both in hunting and in bold exploration; Stigand’s 
capital studies of the spoor and habits of big game (it is 
to be regretted that he was too modest to narrate some 
of his own really extraordinary adventures in the chase 
of dangerous beasts); and Buxton’s account of his two 
African trips. Edward North Buxton’s books ought 
to be in the hands of every hunter everywhere, and 
especially of every young hunter, because they teach 
just the right way in which to look at the sport. With 
Buxton big-game hunting is not a business, but a pas¬ 
time, not allowed to become a mania or in any way to 
interfere with the serious occupations of life, whether 
public or private; and yet as he carried it on it is much 
more than a mere pastime—it is a craft, a pursuit of 
value, in exercising and developing hardihood of body 
and the virile courage and resolution which necessarily 
lie at the base of every strong and manly character. 
He has not a touch of the game butcher in him ; nor 
has he a touch of that craving for ease and luxury the 
indulgence in which turns any sport into a sham and 
a laughing-stock. Big-game hunting, pursued as he has 
pursued it, stands at the opposite pole from those so- 
called sports carried on primarily either as money-making 
