The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1898-07: Vol 7 Iss 36 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 27
asted with the abundant supply of feathered game. This is due no doubt to the Boers, who disdain the use of a gun and shoot merely with the rifle, so that birds are only snared by them, or by the natives. I have seen a small Dutch boy kill pheasants accurately with a catapult, but such instances of… … A GLIMPSE OF THE RIVER secure one of the most splendid koodoo heads known, just beyond the border of Mashonaland; but such a chance is, as I have said, very rare, and you may hunt these regions for months without securing a fair specimen. Whenever we did get a head worth preserving, we thrust it…
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