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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa, by Alfred W. Drayson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Author: Alfred W. Drayson Illustrator: Harrison Weir Release Date: May 27, 2010 [EBook #32558] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPORTING SCENES *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa, by Captain Alfred W. Drayson. ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ ________________ SPORTING SCENES AMONGST THE KAFFIRS OF SOUTH AFRICA, BY CAPTAIN ALFRED W. DRAYSON. PREFACE. Nearly every person with whom I have conversed since my return from South Africa, has appeared to take great interest in the Kaffirs, the wild animals, and other inhabitants of that country. I am not vain enough to suppose that my friends have merely pretended this interest for the sole object of allowing me an opportunity of talking, and have thereby deluded me into a belief of affording amusement. But I really think that the opinions which they have expressed are genuine, and that perhaps the same wish for information on the subject of the Kaffirs, or the wild beasts of the Cape, may be more widely extended than I have been able personally to prove. Most men who have written on South Africa, have been either sporting giants, scientific men, or travellers who have gone over ground never before trodden by the white man. I am neither of these. The first I am not, for the blood spilled by me was but a drop compared to the ocean that many have caused to flow in this land. Unfortunately I am not scientific; but, perhaps, from this very defect, I may become the more intelligible to the general reader of the following pages, who may comprehend my simple names for simple things, rather than those of a polysyllabic character. I know that I have sunk miserably in the opinion of _savants_, in consequence of my inability to tell whether or not the _Terstraemiaceae_ grew luxuriantly in Africa. I only knew
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