THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



of so doing, contrary to the courageous sable and roan 

 antelopes. 



In spite of the good game laws and other circumstances 

 favorable for the survival and even the increase of the 

 gnu, it seems to me that he has either diminished in some 

 degree in British East Africa during the last four years, 

 or else been cunning enough to take to the big-game pre- 

 serves for the greater part of the year, for the number of 

 wildebeest which I saw in 1906 was far greater than those 

 I encountered four years later on practically the same 

 ground. 



