A member of Bechuanaland Protectorate Police, Hodson's duties carried him into Namaqualand and the region of the southern Kalahari. He hunted gemsbock, hartebeest and springbok enroute, then journeyed from the Chobe River to Victoria Falls where he bagged lion. Nar the Nata River, he collected kudu, leopard, and gemsbock. F Vaughn-Kirby also contributes a chapter on Lord Selborne's safari into Rhodesia after eland, gemsbock, kudu, and water buck. A popular work in its day that went through several printings. (An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 -1950 - Czech)

This is the second edition 1913, printed just one year after the first. Foreword by F. C. Selous. Frontispiece of Lord Selborne. 359 pages. 85 black and white photographs / illustrations. Five fold out maps. In green cloth with gilt titles to the front and spine. Occasional light foxing.