BIG GAME SHOOTING.
IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. ' _ t _ 4 / AUSTRALIAN SPORTSMAN’S EX- ! PERIENCE. ---- To lie o’ nights in an improvised bush shelter, waiting for hungry lions, is somewhat different to the even tenor of commercial life in Sydney, but that sort of tiling forms only an accident in the big game expedition in British Fast Africa, from which Mr Duncan Carson, of Messrs Wihchcombe, Carson, Ltd., returned in,the Moldavia to Sydney on June 11th. Mr Carson went away in February, wishing to' get out of the beaten line. He succeeded. For tfiree or four weeks he lived, with ,six or seven native servants, in an atmosphere of big game shooting, and the trophies he has brought back represent something of the wild life that exists in the of Victoria Nvanza,
“I had a glorious time in a glorious country,” said Mr Carson to a Daily Telegraph representative. “The place almost teems' with one sort or another of big game—not excepting lions and buffaloes,.” “Buffalo hunting,” he said, “is intensely exciting, for sometimes the hunter is hunted. I had a very good time in my quest. I escaped injury, Slffit one buffalo, wounded another, and, after ‘trekking’ it for 12 miles, lost it in the dark. Lying out in the night waiting for lions also is calculated to give you a thrill, because you are never quite sure that the lion will not mistake you for the bait which has been placed near by; but from what Infiiters* say, it seems that lions nowadays are losing their daring, and it is hard to get near them. Anyhow, my nightly vigils brought no success. However, I did extremely well in other directions, and. in addition to buffalo, my bag included a very representative collection of the animals which abound in this territory.” With reference to Britisli East Africa itself. Mi' Carson said that it was an ideal place for a young,active man with money and energy. Sheep and cattle thrive there, and cereals and maize, and English vegetables grow splendidly. Since be visited the country five years ago it had gnie ahead wonderfully. Numbers of English settlers had taken up land. The profits on coffee were £4O per acre, ami the same for sisal hemp, when grown in large areas.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 6
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378BIG GAME SHOOTING. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 6
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