Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa. An Account of Shooting Trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza Divisions of Portuguese South East Africa and in Zululand
Author: F R N Findlay
Publisher: T Fisher Unwin
Edition: First 1903
ISBN: Not stated
Language: English
Condition: Good antiquarian copy.
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 313. Print with images and maps.
Additional Information
Findlay trekked through the virtually unknown recesses of the vast swamp and forest lands of Portuguese Southeast Africa and along the Urema and Massarara rivers. The game encountered included buffalo, waterbuck, hartebeest, lion, leopard, reedbuck, and other game. He then travelled to Zululand and bagged black rhino, buffalo, kudu, hippo, and inyala near the Manzibomvu River. Findlay also describes a springbok and ostrich hunt in the karoo country of Cape Colony. Though an ardent sportsman, he also realized the limits of wild game in Africa and argues for the preservation of habitat and maintaining healthy numbers of game animals.' Olive Schreiner, the author's aunt, contributes Part I (8 pages) to Chapter 20, The Fauna of Africa: Conservation or Extermination , a paper entitled, Waste Land in Mashonaland in which she describes the destruction of the fauna of Mashonaland, 'For the moment we are so entirely bent on advancing the claims of a material civilisation, which we are inclined to regard as the all in all of life, that more subtle, if equally practical and important, considerations are apt to be forgotten. This view is forced on us when we consider the reckless and entirely wanton destruction of the one form of production for which the African continent, and more especially its southern portions, stand pre-eminent among the world's divisions - our astonishing fauna.
Not content with imparting his own exciting adventures with buffalo and rhinoceros, his stalks after zebra and waterbuck, his joys and troubles when camping amid wild scenery shared with mosquitoes, crocodiles and other attractions of a holiday in the jungle, he gives the most detailed information for the benefit of others who desire to go and do likewise. Considered as a book of travel and sport, Mr. Findlay's volume is admirable, at once practical in its advice and picturesque in its descriptive portions.
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