# II: A Morning’s Sport explained — Maiwa’s Revenge

> Chapter companion for Maiwa’s Revenge by H. Rider Haggard.

## What happens

Quatermain describes a beautiful African landscape and recounts a morning hunting expedition. After tracking buffalo, he encounters a rhinoceros that charges him and his men. He kills the buffalo and later tracks and shoots the rhinoceros, reflecting on a successful morning's sport.

## Themes in this chapter

### Adventure and Survival

Quatermain's hunting expedition involves tracking dangerous game and surviving a rhinoceros charge.

### Savagery versus Civilization

The hunt contrasts the 'civilized' hunter with the wild, untamed African landscape and animals.

## Character check-ins

### Old Quatermain

Narrator and hunter; shoots a buffalo and a rhinoceros.

### Gobo

Quatermain's companion; shows fear during the hunt but assists afterward.

### Fate

Referenced by Gobo as walking loose in Wambe's country.

## Key lines

> I determined to kill a buffalo, of which there were plenty about, before looking for traces of elephants.

Quatermain decides to hunt a buffalo for meat before searching for elephants.

_Sets the purpose of the morning's hunt._

> I had done a capital morning’s shooting.

Quatermain reflects on a successful hunt.

_Concludes the chapter with a sense of accomplishment._

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