IIAMI-: AM) CAM K rKi:Si:KVA TION IN /.rH'I.AM). 31)5 



l\)ssibl_\ with rcj^ard U; j^aiiie protection. Mr. MitclKll's 

 conclusions ui)on tlie subject of endemic centres of Nagana are 

 of the utmost importance. They make it clear that we are 

 hroujjht face to face with two alternatives-^that of completely 

 " wiping out " all mammalian life, iiicliidiiu/ that of domestic 

 stock, within these centres, or of frankly recognising the im- 

 possibility of doing this, and thereupon setting to work to devise 

 means whereby the spread of the disease from these centres may 

 be i)revented. 



I venture to think the latter is the obvious and only reason- 

 able alternati\e to adopt, but in order to succeed, there must 

 be com])lete mutual understanding established between the Go\- 

 ernment Departments concerned. 



I have endeavoured to show that it is contrary to the inter- 

 ests of the natives, just as it is to those of game protection, to 

 permit them to live, with stock which is being constantly moved 

 about, in these endemic centres of Nagana. And as there seems 

 no lack of space for them elsewhere, I must believe that if the 

 Native Affairs De]jartment were willing to help in regard to these 

 centres, there would be no insuperable tlifficultv in carrving out 

 such measures. 



We must not accustom ourselves to look at one side of the 

 C|uestion only, wdiile ignoring the other, to think solely of the 

 present and leave the future for others. The dance is pleasant, 

 but the piper expects his pay afterwards, and who will pay him? 



What will be said when the gradual extermination of game 

 brings the fly to the doors of kraals and other habitations, seek- 

 ing from domestic stock some of the sustenance they are denied 

 by the scarcity of game, and later still, when virtual extermina- 

 tion is accomplished, and nothing remains but domestic stock 

 for their food supply? Domestic animals, in gradually increasing 

 numbers, themselves constitute almost as serious a factor in the 

 spread of Nagana as do the wild animals, and it would be a 

 grave error to delude ourselves with the idea that when the 

 game is destroyed the fly will vanish. 



There is abundant evidence to the contrarv, just as there is 

 evidence that wild game can live unassociated with the tsetse - 

 fly. The Transvaal Game Reserves furnish such proof. 



I cannot think that the various interests concerned are 

 necessarily antagonistic, but to prevent their becoming so, the 

 party that stands solely for selfish and sordid material gain, the 

 curse of the present age, must be silenced, or if that is imi)Ossil)]e. 

 it must be ignored. 



Even if the theory of the .sole culpability of the game were 

 ever proved, which is about as likely as a final victory for the 

 Huns in the great Continental struggle, still the difiiculty would 

 admit of some other .solution than that of the wholesale destruc- 

 tion of Africa's wild game. 



The voices of those wdio love Nature's handiwork, the sturl- 

 ents of her every mood, who are in genuine sympathy with her 

 children <U' plain and forest, who coiUend that these are not ours 



