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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



the Sabie Game Reserves in the Transvaal, and portions 

 of Portuguese South-East Africa, especially Gazaland 

 and Maputoland, where herds of varying size still exist, 

 but v^hich the farmers in the neighbourhood seem 

 determined to exterminate. They were fairly common 

 in parts of Rhodesia, such as Gatooma and Gwaai, &c., 

 until 1915, when they were considerably shot out. The 



Fig. 42. — Ready for his New Home. 



farmers of the Addo area are now doing their best to 

 obtain the extermination of the Addo herd. I think 

 some plan might be devised whereby such a calamity 

 can be avoided. Surely half a dozen individuals would 

 do no harm and would serve to perpetuate the herd. 



It is a mystery to me why the African Elephant has 

 not long ere this been domesticated in this country. It 

 can be tamed, as was proved in the case of the famous 

 *' Jumbo " of the London Zoo, and it must have been 

 the African species which was used by the Carthaginians. 



