. The story of Africa and its explorers. le a third was badlyscratched by a panther which the party werefollowing at night. Eight camels out ofthirty were lost from the animals being-unequal to the rapid marching, though twomight have died from the bites of the balaad fly of Ogaden, or from that ofthe dug, another poisonous insect, not,however, so deadly as the other. Thereturn trip was by Milmil and the HabrGerhajis country; but, getting his leaveextended. Captain Swayne returned tosurvey the Gure Gallas country beyondIme, thouarh, of course, the officer ofEngineers tells us, his main reason
. The story of Africa and its explorers. le a third was badlyscratched by a panther which the party werefollowing at night. Eight camels out ofthirty were lost from the animals being-unequal to the rapid marching, though twomight have died from the bites of the balaad fly of Ogaden, or from that ofthe dug, another poisonous insect, not,however, so deadly as the other. Thereturn trip was by Milmil and the HabrGerhajis country; but, getting his leaveextended. Captain Swayne returned tosurvey the Gure Gallas country beyondIme, thouarh, of course, the officer ofEngineers tells us, his main reason for LAST DAYS OF THE SPORTSMEN. 237 these journeys is to open up new shooting grounds. * In this meritorious extension of the workof the scientific branch of the Army there is,we venture to think, not much success to be preceding chapters are concerned. The era ofthe hunter is over, and that of the greatexplorer is ahuost equally at an end. Hunt-ing parties will still be organised to shootwhatever is to be shot in the regions off which,. NIAM-NIAM WIZARD.(Front a PJwtograph hy E. Bnchta.) looked for. There are now few wide areas ofAfrica of which the general characteristics arenot known, and almost none of them swarmwith game as South Africa swarmed withit in the palmy days with which the * The G(0{iraphicalJournnl, 1893 (Vol. II.), p. 252, andS59 (map showing Captain Swaynes and Luigi Bricchetti-Itobecchis routes in the Somali country). to use a homely metaphor, the cream haslong ago been skimmed, and even bags made which may amaze a generation ignorantof. the fortunes that befell the fathers ofAfrican sport. Indeed, at the moment ofwriting, the columns of the newspapers whichconcern themselves with the goings andcomings of fashionable society intimate that 238 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. a young nobleman has returned from atwo and a-half years hunting trip to theZambesi country, where he had a fair shareof the sport still to be had in no niggardamount in the less frequented parts of
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