AN INTERESTING VISITOR.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13612, 22 December 1909, Page 9

AN INTERESTING VISITOR.

IfHOOTIX* BIG GAME IN AFRICA

,:-- A member-of the staff of "The Press" had a chat yesterday with Mr W. G. Dnncan, an African big game shooter ;'fi» is at present on a health visit to >'$he Dominion.' Mr Duncan has been a fiCEter of big game from a very eariy 4«ge. Mooting mainly koodoo, the large v;S»T°Pf. of Africa. A red-letter day in life was when he secured his -'** Buffalo, which was shot about 1880 ,:*]* -I**® Mr Thomas Baines, the exand animal painter, Avho was a ;,,<We»gne of Dr. Livingstone, was a ?jftaeotion of Mr Duncan, and it was & him, as a youngster, the ambition to become a hunter. ti«r Duncan shot leopards before ho was jflwenwen years of age. In the earlier .OTSoouth'Africa was a hunter's para-:-/g*i now buffaJo do not exist, though Jpere are a few lions in northern ZuluIn Portugiieso East Africa Mr ;j s£ fl <-*« shot his first J ion; since then JL- 9 2 " 1 has taken Par* in hunting ■•«??».'V , , ,1 I)arte oi Afri ca. Hying "1? -ft Z l llus , as on e of themselves, -j the ilo P°ngas, and he has every native language in *'fd?*' L } ri *X them, he becamo Avith their manners and ai »d he has a high opinion, of tho Zulus. "There is not any class of «LW. m Africa '" "id Mr Duncan, _- Mtt I hare not shot. My tour over ft* • purely for health reasons, and -**" wry pleased indeed with the ? "*»& V c } im * te > and People. I intend " S 5 - 1 *^ 11 to resume hunting in Juno , Xxkia. Central Africa." *•>> v. ~ "