Big Game Shooting 



it ? Gather them together, those who have 

 roughed it and shot the world over. Could not 

 we have the benefit of their combined efforts 

 and brains to elaborate a code of laws for the 

 pursuit and final bagging of big game ? Africa 

 has of late become a fashionable country for 

 shooting in. Crowds of sportsmen go there 

 year in year out. All come back to Old Eng- 

 land rapturous in their praise of the country and 

 the shooting to be obtained in the most beautiful 

 climate in the world. On the Equator, too ! Who 

 would have imagined it ten years ago ? More 

 and more are making up their parties to go and 

 shoot there every year. Let us have some good 

 broad-minded shooting rules laid down in black 

 and white for the guidance of those who don't 

 know. Most of them would " sell their souls " 

 (as the expression goes) to know. It would go 

 a very long way indeed towards the protec- 

 tion of big game all over the world. Whilst 

 they are at it, i.e. this committee- meeting of 

 sportsmen, whose names one could hazard a very 

 good guess at, they could legislate for the icy 

 peaks of the Pamirs and the Altai Mountains, 

 as well as the Central Provinces and the African 

 Equator, even comprising far-away New Zealand 

 and its stags, with the Rockies into the bargain. 



Reserves are all very well in their way, and 

 are the only possible means up-to-date. They 

 are certainly absolutely respected by all and 



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