Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa - With Anecdotes of the Chase and Notices of the Native Tribes #224362

Whatever on those occasions I witnessed worthy of at tention, I noted in my journal while the impression was yet fresh in my memory; from this journal the follow ing work is almost literally transcribed. Written nu der such circumstances, the reader will not look for the graces of style. The hand, wearied all day with grasp ing the rifle, is not the best suited for wielding the pen. If I have in simple language given pleasure to the sportsman, or added one page to the natural history of Southern Africa, or to our knowledge of its tribes, I shall think myself amply repaid for my many wander ings and watchings in a wild and savage land.