RHODESIA. 209 



but an exceptionally good horse can in four, or 

 even five, upon the best food. In all respects, in 

 fact, they are, for the purposes of African travel, 

 far more suitable than horses, even if horses 

 could live in these parts of the country I am 

 just now treating of. True, these beasts are not 

 attractive in appearance, and are deficient in good 

 manners, but they are eminently fitted by nature 

 for African travel, and, in short, where horses will 

 not live, are, I submit, indispensable to the safety 

 and wellbeing of settlers in such countries as 

 Rhodesia. 



So much has been written on the subject of the 

 game animals of the country that I will only 

 remark that, although pretty well stocked in parts, 

 sad and wasteful havoc has already reduced the 

 numbers of the larger and more valuable of the 

 fauna in the more accessible districts, and unless 

 effective measures are speedily adopted to preserve 

 the existing remnants, extermination will speedily 

 be accomplished. 



If, however, the 100 license to shoot the larger 

 species of game animals which has been lately 

 imposed by the Chartered Company is made 

 strictly obligatory, under heavy penalties for in- 



p 



