With Flash li<^hl cind Rifle ^ 



Railway, with the result that G^rcat herds of wild animals 

 may be seen (|uite near the railwa)- lines. 



On this day, to my delight, 1 succeeded in getting 

 some good pictures of zebras and hartebeest antelopes, 

 taken at a distance. I was the more pleased because, owing 

 to the complete lack of control over the shooting by Askaris 

 in the neighbourhood of Moshi. the whok^ district had 

 been practically denuded of wild lite In this Moshi 

 region, where one ot the first c:ommandants, Ib-rr xon 

 Fdtz, had killed as many as sixty rhinocer()S(;s, nowadays 

 even a single rhinoceros is seldom sec-n. 



You no longer see h(.'rds of a hundred zebras, such 

 as Proft;ssor lians Meyer found lu-re years ago. it is 

 not to the: rilles of sportsmen, howc'ver, that thc\- have 

 fLllcn. Thcv mainlv owe their destruction to the un- 

 checked shooting of the black soldiers, who had the 

 ammunition stones at their disposal. In 1896 I myself 

 c.une \'er\ near to being shot by these gentry. 



The fable about "slaughterings" by sportsmen — 

 esjiecially hjiglish sportsmen -being the cause of the 

 disappearance* of the fauna in lands like East Africa se(;ms 

 impossible to root out of people's minds. 



In German I^ast Africa, and in other unhealthy and 

 fever-infested countries, \ c;ry few sportsmen, good or bad, 

 have been at work up to the i)resent. The great 

 <-xpense of sporting expeditions is (enough in itself to 

 keej) them away. 



But millions of bullets from the rifles of Europeans 

 of all descriptions, of Askaris, and, last but not least, of 

 the nativf;s, have been whistling ov('r the fields of German 



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