. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . u 65 A Wet Crossing »j 67 First-fruits n 69 Water-bucks i> 71 A Roan Antelope . n 73 The Hill Camp . » 75 The Camp Scavenger » 77 More Scavengers i» 79 Village Gossips » 81 A Village Dance »» 83 My First Buffalo . )» 85 Fish-eagles n 87 Sunday Best a 89 Pelicans n 91 Cobs in the High Grass » 93 Filling the Water-skins )T 95 My Lion . II 97 The White-eared Cob »> 99 A Grass Fire II 101 Tiang » 103 Stilts at Rest ii 105 A Mob of Pelicans . » 107 An Old Male Cob . »* 109 Fishermen » 111 Our Party . ii 113
. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . u 65 A Wet Crossing »j 67 First-fruits n 69 Water-bucks i> 71 A Roan Antelope . n 73 The Hill Camp . » 75 The Camp Scavenger » 77 More Scavengers i» 79 Village Gossips » 81 A Village Dance »» 83 My First Buffalo . )» 85 Fish-eagles n 87 Sunday Best a 89 Pelicans n 91 Cobs in the High Grass » 93 Filling the Water-skins )T 95 My Lion . II 97 The White-eared Cob »> 99 A Grass Fire II 101 Tiang » 103 Stilts at Rest ii 105 A Mob of Pelicans . » 107 An Old Male Cob . »* 109 Fishermen » 111 Our Party . ii 113 ILLUSTRATIONS The Stalker stalked To face page 115 A Doe 117 Marabout Storks .... 119 Feeding-time .... 121 Goliath Herons and Demoiselle Cranes 123 At the Point of Departure . 125 White Herons .... 127 Pelicans ..... 129 Black Ibis and Kite 131 Wood Ibis feeding .... 133 Meat for All .... 135 Ambatch Canoe .... 137 A Khartoum Nuggar 139 Meeting the Homeward Bound 141 Facing the Dawn .... 153 Buff-backed Herons 171 Family Life .... 185 Egrets ..... 203. ccDO a DC< I < <CO O 5 TWO AFRICAN TRIPS BRITISH EAST AFRICA Early in 1899 a small band of travellers and sportsmen,brought together by the kindness of a prominent officialof the Foreign Office, met to consider the question of thepreservation of the large game of Africa. The questionwas urgent, and many people hoped for some results fromthe International Conference of the great Powers havingAfrican possessions which assembled under Lord Salis-burys auspices to confer upon the measures to be thereto by the first-named gathering, I paid aholiday visit with my daughter in the summer of 1899to British East Africa, hunted for a few weeks in someof the best game-districts, and paid special attention tothe protective measures which had been already field-notes may not be without their value as bearingon the subject, and especially as showing the extra-ordinary wealth of li
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