As A Matter Of Fact, The Whole Country
Abounds In Game, And There Cannot Be Lack Of Sport
And Trophies For The Keen Shikari.
The heads and skins
should be very carefully sun-dried and packed in tin-lined
cases with plenty of moth-killer for shipment
home.
For mounting his trophies the sportsman cannot
do better, I think, than go to Rowland Ward of
Piccadilly. I have had mine set up by this firm for
years past, and have always found their work excellent.
I consider that 400 pounds should cover the entire cost of
a three months' shooting trip to East Africa, including
passage both ways. The frugal sportsman will
doubtless do it on less, while the extravagant man will
probably spend very much more.
Should time be available, a trip to the Victoria Nyanza
should certainly be made. The voyage round the Lake
in one of the comfortable railway steamers takes about
eight days, but the crossing to Entebbe, the official
capital of Uganda, can be done in seventeen hours,
though it usually takes twenty-seven, as at night the
boats anchor for shelter under the lee of an island.
The steamer remains long enough in Entebbe harbour
to enable the energetic traveller to pay a flying visit in
a rickshaw to Kampala, the native capital, some twenty-one
miles off. I spent a most interesting day last year
in this way, and had a chat with the boy King of
Uganda, Daudi Chwa, at Mengo. He was then about
nine years old, and very bright and intelligent.
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