The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . active, within the itineraryof the travelling sportsman. New Zealand is unquestionably the most con-vincing illustration of what judicious introduction of exotic stock may effectin the sporting interest, and the gigantic trout of that beautiful country, itsgrowing herds of deer, its quail and its pheas-ants, will, ere another generation has come intobeing, put it in the front rank of sporting resorts.\\ hat astonishes the men of some othernationalities is the passion for bodilv exer-cise implanted in the British mind.
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . active, within the itineraryof the travelling sportsman. New Zealand is unquestionably the most con-vincing illustration of what judicious introduction of exotic stock may effectin the sporting interest, and the gigantic trout of that beautiful country, itsgrowing herds of deer, its quail and its pheas-ants, will, ere another generation has come intobeing, put it in the front rank of sporting resorts.\\ hat astonishes the men of some othernationalities is the passion for bodilv exer-cise implanted in the British mind. Notago, on a broiling summer afternoon,I was privileged to be the sole spectatorof a heated contest at Badminton, with threeplayers aside, one of them being the championlady player whose account of her favouritegame will be found in these pages. The ladies;it the net played on with unflagging en-thusiasm, though there was not a merciful cloud to hide the sun for a moment. When AN AFRICAN rh,Noceros the game was over, I could not help recalling p**., p. b. *?»*»*»/.). INTRODUCTION. 7 a very different scene, a crowded ball-room in Tangier, with diplomatists, allstars and orders, dancing with their womenfolk till a late hour, and a Moorishnoble of high rank asking whether European ladies and gentlemen were bornmad, that they must needs dance themselves when they could sit on divansand pay hired girls to dance for them ! The reading of a book in which are gathered articles from all parts of theworld on the sports and pastimes of English and foreigner, Western and Eastern,must needs in a measure resemble looking on. The looker-on has not, perhaps,the best of the game, but we cannot all be players at once, and some of uswill play the better if we first watch experts for a space. So, in this volume,those who have availed themselves of exceptional opportunities for playing the
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