The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-09
BIG GAME IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
zambesi a Sportsman's Paradise, Says
a Man Who Crossed The Country.

Il consider Central Africa to be the
| sportsman's paradise said J. ]. Rey-
uard OF the Cape to Carlo telegraph
construction staff. Mr. Reynard, who
bad come down to Cape Town for a
short visit, has been for 10 years in the
various British portions Of Central
Africa south and north of the Zambesi.
Game is so plentiful" he said, that
I'm passing Wei lands | have seen Gland,
zebra, hartebeeste, reedbuck and rhino
grazing together, while hippo are plen-
tiful in almost all rivers have my
self shot six of these in one hunt, all
the meat being saved for the camp by
tie natives, who dry what they do not
cat
Lions are as common as jaekals. and
their roaring, at night around the hun.
tcr's camp is constant, but they are not
frequently seen and it is far safer to
travel through the weld than by river.
" here Turk the dreaded crocodile. |
have known 40 natives taken in one
year by crocodile. If the sportsman
taken the train in the dry season to
Broken Hill the present terminus of the
line, he will find all the sport he re-
quires."
Mr.. Reynard, himself striking adj
vertisement of the salubrity of the
climate, IS strongly of opinion that the
elevated portions of the vast inland ter
ritory viii carry Europeans Euro
pean children in the country" he said,
are very healthy, and though there are
rot many European women those who
are there appear to thrive You must
understand, however. that communca-
ton is not easy, that the stations are
100 miles apart and that all travelling
IS done with the help of native por-
ters The travellers loads are carried
on the heads of the porters and the
travellers on the porters' shoulders in
the maehilla." A machilla, it may be
explained, is a kind of litter. A woman
traveller who recently published a book
on her journeyings between the Cape
and Cairo was SO carried nearly all the
way. Note that Mr. Reynard referred
to the elevated parts Of the country,
not the river valleys, in his remark up.
on the sambrity of the climate.
'sThe natives" he says, ARE exceed
inely loyal people, more especially in
tho British portions of Central Africa
known as NoClheastern Rhodesia and
Nyassaland Protectorate. During many
years residence in the country during
which l have Travelled many thousands
81 miles, | have never met with an in
solent chief The European traveller on
approaching a kraal is met at the vii
lage by the chief and is pointed out the
best site for his camp. while water and
fuel are provided by the chiefs wives.
Invariably the traveller is presented
with food, in some parts with d young
m, in others with sheep, goats, fowls
1r pigeons, Labor is cheap and adults
viii work away from the civilized cen.
5ers such as Blantyre for the official
standard wage Of three shillings per
month, together with one ward of
,alico per week used in exchange for
God. Again the native porter will car
y 56-pound load distance of 600
niles for five shilings. together with
our yards of calico" The people are
onder of work than those in the south.
nut owing to the high mortality among
bose who went to the Rand mines the
imperial government stopped recruiting
From the Cape Argus.