The Preservation of Big Game 



sundry, but the time will soon come when game 

 will get scarce, now the world is being so tre- 

 mendously over-populated. Take South Africa 

 for example. They tell me that there was once 

 a time within the ken of modern man when the 

 country teemed with vast herds of antelope of 

 all sorts. Millions of elephant abounded there, 

 and everything that one can imagine to do with 

 Africa. Look at it now ! Where are they all ? 

 Gone — like the North American bison. That is 

 the simile I want. Countless millions, so common 

 that no attempt was made to preserve them, and 

 the one poor little herd that now is kept alive in 

 the Yellowstone Park is so important to all the 

 world that its births, marriages, and deaths are 

 duly published in The Times. 



Take time by the forelock. Let us get in any 

 little wedge we can before it is too late, to heave up 

 the whole stupendous block before it sinks into 

 oblivion. We don't want to have to fall back on 

 the British Museum, or at least our offspring does 

 not, to go and gape and see what used to be in 

 days gone by. If things are common let them 

 be kept in multitudes instead of being wiped 

 out. The international game laws existent are 

 very good, but certain animals, at present none 

 too numerous, might very well be added in some 

 small degree to the list of prohibitions. The thin 

 end of the wedge might be started by making 

 some animals, if not exactly barred for a term of 



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