The Lion Hunter - In The Days When All South Africa Was Virgin Hunting Field - BY RONALEYN GORDON-CUMMING - 1922 - INTRODUCTION - It was in the second quarter a the nineteenth century that British sportsmen began to make those long and arduous journeys after noble game bat ever since have been the aspiration of rifle men throughout the world. At that period, in both hemispheres, the herbivore swarmed over the plains in countless thousands, and beasts of prey had not yet learned to fear the flash of firearms South Africa, especially was a paradise for hunters. The late William Cotton Oswell has given a vivid picture of the multitudes of wiId animals that enjoyed undesturbed seclusion in South Africa when he and Gordon-Cumming hunted there, some several years ago. On the plains between the Orange and Molopo Riuers, springbucks were met with in vast herds. Far an hours march with the...