Some things in it require explanation, but the numbers of animals said to have been met with and killed are by no means improbable, considering the amount of large game then in the country.

Two other gentlemen hunting in the same region destroyed in one season no fewer than seventy-eight rhinoceroses alone.

Sportsmen, however, would not now find an equal number, for as guns are introduced among the tribes all these fine animals melt away like snow in spring.

In the more remote districts, where fire-arms have not yet been introduced, with the single exception of the rhinoceros, the game is to be found in numbers much greater than Mr.Cumming ever saw.

The tsetse is, however, an insuperable barrier to hunting with horses there, and Europeans can do nothing on foot.