Big Game Shooting 



attained through the medium of a gift of large 

 quantities of raw meat), one will be told of local- 

 ities for certain animals otherwise unthought of, 

 or perhaps unreachable owing to a desert march 

 without water, and facilities arranged for the 

 bringing of them to book which might have been 

 deemed impossible beforehand ; added to which 

 as general utility servants, for the sending of mes- 

 sages, and fagging all over the surrounding dis- 

 trict, they are invaluable. 



The professional black hunter is the only real 

 nuisance to be dealt with as regards indiscriminate 

 slaughter of game. He knows he is a nuisance, 

 and he knows he is tabooed, and so he makes his 

 plans accordingly, so as not to be collared red- 

 handed in more senses of the word than one. 

 All are well known, all should be absolutely 

 barred. The word should go out north, south, 

 east, and west that any black professional hunter 

 without a licence should be brought into the 

 nearest station and very severely dealt with. 

 Furthermore, and more important still, no more 

 licences should be granted to any one in the 

 shape of a professional black hunter after a cer- 

 tain date. Very few of these blackguards would 

 be hurt, as the comparatively small number of 

 individuals who could not gain a better liveli- 

 hood trading — they know the ways of the world 

 well enough — or better still entering their names 

 on a list at the various coast ports to be taken 



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