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Fifty Years in South Africa
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Excerpt from Fifty Years in South Africa: Being Some Recollections and Reflections of a Veteran PioneerN 0 one can read the Chapters on game and shooting without being convinced that although a hunter for the market the author is a thorough Sportsman. Of personal adventures he is slow to write, remarking that one episode is very much the same as another, many sportsmen will regret that one who has killed so many lions and much other large game is so reticent on the subject of his sporting exploits, but those who intend visiting South Africa in search Of Sport will read with greater profit the particulars he gives Of the game-lands, and his remarks on the subject Of game pre servation should be borne in mind by those who have the interest Of South Africa at heart. TO the Boer large game has been a source of wealth, and its rapid extinction in the Transvaal will probably result at no distant date in a trek of the Boer stock-raisers to districts within British territory, and this must react on the division of parties within the Transvaal and so has a political as well as an economical aspect.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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