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DivENTY-SEVEN 'years' experience of big-game shooting on either side of Africa, and from Belgian Congo down to the Zambesi and Rhodesia, added to exceptional luck hi seeing startling incidents on the game-trail, has made Mr. W. S. Chadwick's Hunters and the Hunted (Witherby, 10s. 6d.) one of the most truly thrilling books of hunting yarns we have ever come across. Most of what he relates he has seen with his own eyes. He has seen battles between two bull-elephants, between leopard and warthog, of a lion versus a python, and of two lions against a buffalo-bull ; and he underwent the awful experience of having his shooting-scherm entered at night by a black mamba (deadliest and swiftest of snakes), while two lions were prowling outside. Many fine stories, too, he has to tell of the bravery of black or brown men—Bushmen and Awemba—and of dogs, though he notes that "dogs, as a rule, are more of a liability than an asset in the hunting veldt." Fathers ought to buy this book for their sons, but ought not to miss reading it themselves before they hand it over.
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