THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



German and Portuguese East Africa, where at times the 

 natives have been allowed to carry firearms, this was 

 different, but in most of the countries controlled by Euro- 

 pean governments, including British East Africa, he is, 

 fortunately, not allowed to carry firearms. It is, there- 

 fore, only with the advent of the white sportsman and 

 settler with their destructive modern weapons that the 

 natural increase of game has been checked, and some 

 of the finest of the animals threatened with total ex- 

 tinction. 



Yet, in spite of all this, British East Africa is to-day the 

 most remarkable game country in the world. On its vast 

 plains the sportsman will still find countless numbers of 

 different kinds of hartebeest, topi, Grant's and Thom- 

 son's gazelles, lion, wart hog, wildebeest, water buck, 

 giraffe, zebra, and occasionally eland, rhino and hippo, in 

 and near the rivers. In open bush or parklike country 

 he will meet zebra, Jackson's hartebeest, impala, oryx, 

 eland, roan, sable, wart hog, giraffe, rhino, reed buck, 

 water buck, baboons, bush pig, and many of the smaller 

 antelopes. In the big, dense forests he may secure ele- 

 phant, bush pig, bongo, rhino, bush buck, possibly the 

 giant pig, and a great number of different kinds of mon- 

 keys and smaller fur animals, while almost everywhere 

 there is an abundance of birds, big and small, not to speak 

 of the reptiles previously referred to. 



From the above it is evident that whereas certain ani- 

 mals, like the elephant, bongo, bush pig and monkeys, are 

 found only in the forests, and other game, like the gnu, 

 topi, and Thomson's gazelle, are all denizens of the plains, 

 a great number of the choicest game animals are found 



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