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native land, must also become the protecting lord of all 

 its animal and plant lite ; he should maintain his own 

 estate in its primitive condition to the fullest possible 

 extent. But to his estate, in a wider sense, also 

 belongs the velt of German Africa, still so rich in wild 

 life. Here, too, the German sportsman should take up 

 the position of guardian and protector. 



The well-known English writer Clive Philips-Wolley 

 says that happily the old English sporting spirit is not 

 dead ; that the farthest and wildest hunting grounds of 

 the world, a visit to which demands the greatest energy 

 and courage, are still sought out by men of the English 

 race, as in earlier days. England owes a great part of 

 her colonies to men, eager for enterprise, who as hunters 

 penetrated into unknown wildernesses ; and the English 

 hunter has, thanks to his courage and determination, 

 always played a great part among strange peoples. The 

 reckless conduct of travellers in far-off countries and 

 among strange tribes is often sufficient to give a luhole 

 nation a bad character in the eyes of these people, while 

 a right bearing may make it appear worthy of their 

 admiration. Philips-Wolley further points out that the 

 taking of " big bags " of game in far-off hunting grounds a 

 should not be considered merely from the point of view 

 of stay-at-home people, but from the point of view of 

 those who have special knowledge of the districts in 

 question. 



The time has passed when far-off lands \vere secured 



1 Expeditions in uninhabited districts have sometimes been entirely 

 supplied by shooting wild animals. 



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