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THE REAL RHODESIA. 
The misconceptions of Rhodesia are manifold. 
Many people seem to think of it as a desert, just 
as the name of Egypt brings to their mind’s eye 
a vast sandy plain, with Pyramids and a Sphinx l 
instead of grass and vegetation. But as a traveler | 
who has recently returned from Rhodesia put it.! 
if an average Englishman could be blindfolded at 
home, taken to Rhodesia, and there told that he 
might remove the bandage from his eyes, he 
would not, when he did so, be able to tell from 
the scenery that he was not at home in one of 
the more picturesque districts of his native land. 
Mr. Alfred Bromwich, the curator of the British 
South Africa Company’s museum, has brought 
back with him from his tour in Rhodesia quite 
“a cloud of witnesses” to the luxuriance of the 
vegetation of the country, in the shape of won¬ 
derful botanical specimens, palms, grasses, ferns, 
flowers and heather, and hundreds of photo¬ 
graphs, which sufficiently emphasize the fact that 
the country is neither an impenetrable jungle nor 
an arid waste. Perhaps the samples of heather 
are the most fascinating of his curiosities. Some¬ 
how or other, one cannot get away from the 
notion that in Scotland, Yorkshire and the 
Devonshire moors we have the only heather in 
the world. One does not, at all events, think of 
heather in such places as Africa and India. But 
in Rhodesia there are vast expanses of glorious 
heather-moor exactly like stretches of Dartmoor 
or the Grampians. And, judging by the way in 
which other British fauna have thriven when im¬ 
ported into Rhodesia, it would probably be not 
a difficult matter to stock Rhodesian moors with 
grouse and blackcock—indeed, with all the game 
of an English or Scottish grouse moor. 
The northwestern district of Rhodesia, in par¬ 
ticular, abounds in every description of big game 
—elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, zebra, lion, 
buffalo, rhinoceros and antelope, with other mem¬ 
bers of the deer family too numerous to mention. 
Even from the railway, so Mr. Bromwich says, 
great herds of game can be seen, and are in some 
cases quite a nuisance. The elephants, for in¬ 
stance, have some rooted and unaccountable ob¬ 
jection to the mile pegs by the railway line, and 
cause endless annoyance by their habit of. pull¬ 
ing them out of the ground with their trunks. 
There is, by the way, some excellent fishing. 
The baboons, too, being expert thieves, and 
even burglars, are a considerable nuisance, par¬ 
ticularly to storekeepers, of whose goods they 
manage to filch a surprising quantity. Mr. Brom¬ 
wich relates the experience of a storekeeper per¬ 
sonally known to himself. This man, hearing 
a noise in his shop at a time when he was tem¬ 
porarily in a small room at the back of the build¬ 
ing, returned hurriedly, just in time to see a 
baboon grab something from the counter and 
then dash out of the shop. This was a large 
bbttle, as its late owner discovered, and con¬ 
tained Epsom salts; and as he watched the 
simian thief disappear, brandishing its prize, he 
shook his fist after him exclaiming, “Well, I 
only hope you’ll take the bottleful all at once.’’ 
However, he never saw the end. 
Baboon hunting is a very popular sport, and 
the quarry is abundant—so abundant, in fact, as 
to be dangerous on occasion. No single man, 
even though armed with a rifle, will venture to, 
molest a troop of baboons on the raid. Another 
nuisance to farmers is the tefci cat, a little tigerish 
beast which causes great havoc in unprotected 
fowl houses, and is ruthlessly killed on sight. 
Perhaps the greatest recommendation of Rho¬ 
desia as a sportsman’s country is that it is never 
necesary, in order to come within reach of big 
game, to get out of touch with civilization. In 
case of an accident, for instance, this fact is 
particularly comforting, for you can always get 
at a doctor within a day's travel. That means 
that you need not burden yourself with an enor¬ 
mous amount of luggage. The necessaries of 
life can be bought near to the actual place where 
shooting can be had; though, of course, men 
who are particular in matters of outfit and pro¬ 
visions will provide themselves with what they 
consider necessary in England.—County Gentle¬ 
man. • 
