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The idea, which is at present inchoate, is to secure 

 if possible a grant of a tract of land — some 100,000 

 acres — in Mashonaland or the adjacent territories, 

 fence it in, and form a park in which small herds of 

 game may be enclosed. It would not be difficult to 

 procure the young of many kinds of African game 

 and rear them in such a park, and drafts could be 

 sold off from time to time, to supply the collections 

 of European and other countries. Whether the help 

 of the Chartered Company or of the British Govern- 

 ment in South Africa can be enlisted for such an 

 object — a matter of vital importance; whether the 

 scheme, if brought to a head, can be made self- 

 supporting — also an important consideration ; these 

 are questions hardly within the scope of this chapter. 



But that any undertaking having for its object the 

 rescue and preservation of the disappearing fauna of 

 South Africa will have in this country the sympathy 

 of all true lovers of nature and animal life, is, I 

 think, a fact beyond the realm of argument. 



