Excerpt from Sport in War In addition to military operations such as these, we saw something of the actual sport proper of the country, since supplies, especially of meat, were very scarce with us. Therefore the game-laws were by special ordin ance suspended, and we availed our selves of every opportunity to get buck or other food. In many dis tricts we found it sufficiently abun dant, while in others the fatal scourge of rinderpest had done its work especially among the koodoo - and had decimated the former troops of game ...
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Excerpt from Sport in War In addition to military operations such as these, we saw something of the actual sport proper of the country, since supplies, especially of meat, were very scarce with us. Therefore the game-laws were by special ordin ance suspended, and we availed our selves of every opportunity to get buck or other food. In many dis tricts we found it sufficiently abun dant, while in others the fatal scourge of rinderpest had done its work especially among the koodoo - and had decimated the former troops of game. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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