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eastern Ix^undarv-linc. which now ran from the last-named 

 |X)int to the original one on the iMzinene River. 



During the same ])eriod the Dukuduku Reserve was limited 

 to its ])resent houndaries, as was also the Umfolozi Reserve. 



It should be mentioned that at the time of the establishment 

 of the first four Reserves above mentioned the shooting on per- 

 mit to which reference has been made was allowed only in Nos. 

 1 and 2, imne whatever being permitted in 3 and 4. 



1 am not certain of the reason for the abolition of Reserves 

 Nos. I and 5, but have understood that this land was intended 

 to be divided up for European occupation. 



During the year 191 1 a Game Conservator was appointed 

 for Zululand, with a stafif of native Game-guards to assist him ; 

 the head(iuarters of this official were esablished at Nongoma, 

 this place having been selected for the purpose by reason of its 

 being in telegraphic and telephonic communication with all the 

 magistrates in Zululand. 



In igi2 it was considered advisable to add another Game 

 Reserve to the three already existing, and this was done under 

 the Provisions of Section S of Act No. 8 of 1906, as amended 

 by Section 81 of the South Africa Act, 1909, whereby the pre- 

 sent Mkuzi Game Reserve was established. This is situated on 

 the south bank of the Mkuzi River, in the Ul>ombo Division, 

 with Native Reserve No. 2, as its south-western boundary and 

 the Msunduzi River on the south-east. 



The object sought to be obtained by the establishment of 

 this Reserve was the inclusion of certain species of game not 

 found in either of the others, vis., Impala, Inyala, Red Bush- 

 Duiker, and a local sub-species of Livingstone's Suni. 



It may be mentioned that the area thus included was practi- 

 cally uninhabited, and that the game therein had for a con- 

 siderable period been partially protected by the Magistrate at 

 Ulx)mbo, in whose Division it is situated, and whose " mufti " 

 Reserve is the name by which it was known. 



A brief reference to the leading characteristics of the 

 present four Zululand Game Reserves may be of interest, as 

 serving to show that they supply the needs of all the dififerent 

 classes of game which are to be found in the country. 



The Mkuzi Reserve, in extent about 62,000 acres, consists 

 for the most part of rolling country formed by the foot-hills on 

 the northern slopes of the south-eastern extremity of the Ubombo 

 Range ; these fall away gradually towards the Mkuzi River, 

 within a few miles of which the ground again rises slightly and 

 forms an extensive plateau. On the eastern side the country 

 slo])es steadily towards the Mlambomudi River ("Soma" on 

 the maps), along the banJ<s of which it is very flat and unusually 

 open for thorn-country. 



Buffalo used to be fairly ])lentiful in this Reserve, in the 

 neighbourhood of the Delakufa, where the bush is thick and 

 dense reed-beds clothe the river banks. By 191 1 their numbers 

 were reduced to two, both large bulls, and these died, as far 



