Nature and Sport, in South Africa (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Nature and Sport, in South Africa These sketches of sport and natural history in South Africa necessarily refer to only a portion of the wonderful fauna and avi-fauna of the country. Two or three stout volumes would be required to deal fairly with the rich store of zoological life still left to the various territories south of the Zambesi. I can only claim that those subjects upon which I have written are dealt with pretty thoroughly, and that the chapters on sport are true pictures of life in the wilderness. It will be said, possibly, that much of the latter portion of this book is a mere Jeremiad - a lament upon the gradual disappearance of the great game of a country originally far more richly endowed with animal life than any other part of the world. But my pages merely reflect the sentiments of any true lover of nature who has actual knowledge of South Africa, and has followed the history of the extermination of its wild life during the present century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.