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safe from hunting. Likewise in those places animals 
soon learn to accept man without fear just as they da 
other animals. The case of the bears in the Yellow- 
stone Park is known to everyone. At Banff, in the 
Canadian Rockies, protection has led even so shy 
an animal as the mountain sheep to accept man 
enough to be photographed at short distances. Were 
the gorillas on the three peaks protected I am certain 
that in a very short time they would become so ac- 
customed to man that they could be studied in their 
native surroundings in a way that would rapidly 
produce most interesting and important scientific 
results. 
This sanctuary would not interfere with any other 
activity in the country. The gorilla range is not fit 
for agriculture. The natives use it now as a source 
for firewood and a grazing ground for their cattle. 
It could continue to be put to these uses as far as the 
zorillas would be concerned. Elephants, buffaloes, 
and other animals might flock into the sanctuary 
30 as to become something of a! problem, but their 
numbers could be kept down without disturbing the 
gorillas’ sense of security. 
To create this sanctuary would be comparatively 
easy and inexpensive. I think it would require first 
of all that the sanctuary be bounded by a road. I 
do not think it would be necessary to fence the 
sanctuary for I believe the gorillas would stay inside 
its limits. The road would be chiefly for police pur- 
poses to make it easier to be sure that hunters stayed 
outside. The policing of the road could be done by 
