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the species killed was larger than the black 

 rhinoceros. 



4. Stanley claims to have shot R. simus in 

 Karagweh, 



The above evidence, both recent and remote, 

 thus proves the distribution of the white rhinoceros 

 to be far wider than was formerly supposed. 

 A great portion of the newly-discovered home of 

 R. simus lies within the boundaries of a British 

 Protectorate — Uganda. It is therefore to be 

 hoped that this sorely-persecuted species may at 

 last receive efficient protection. Already it is 

 evident that the era of slaughter is passing away 

 from Africa, and that preservation and not perse- 

 cution will be the order of the day. The most 

 recent accounts of the various game reserves 

 established by British Administrators show that 

 much may yet be done to protect the noblest 

 fauna the world has ever seen ; and the naturalist, 

 on reading the reports of the increasing zebra and 

 waterbuck herds on the Shire River, and of 

 the flourishing state of the protected game animals 

 along the course of the Uganda Railway, may 

 reasonably hope that the persecuted white rhin- 

 oceros, so harassed in the past, may find an abiding 

 sanctuary under the aegis of the pax Britannica. 

 Protection vice persecution, increase vice decrease, 

 stringent guardianship vice irresponsible indif- 



