

GAME TRAILS 





hinnying or neighing; but usually 

 : ft Mftccession of grunts, or bubbling squeals through 

 he long grass was traversed in all directions 

 i there was much fresh sign of the 

 beasts their dung, and the wrecked trees on which 

 ,ui been feeding; and there was sign of buffalo also. 

 !e Africa, thanks to wise legislation, and to the 

 red size of the areas open to true settlement, there 

 t ii no such reckless, wholesale slaughter of big game 

 r which has brought the once wonderful big game 

 ma of South Africa to the verge of extinction. In certain 

 small areas of middle Africa, of course, it has gone; but 

 as a whole it has not much diminished, some species have 

 actually increased, and none is in danger of immediate 

 extinction, unless it be the white rhinoceros. During the 

 t decade, for instance, the buffalo have been recovering 

 their lost ground throughout the Lado, Uganda, and British 

 East Africa, having multiplied many times over. During 

 the same period, in the same region, the elephant have 

 not greatly diminished in aggregate numbers, although the 

 number of bulls carrying big ivory has been very much 

 reduced; indeed the reproductive capacity of the herds 

 has probably been very little impaired, the energies of the 

 hunters having been almost exclusively directed to the 

 killing of the bulls with tusks weighing over thirty pounds 

 apiece; and the really big tuskers, which are most eagerly 

 sought after, are almost always past their prime, and no 

 longer associate with the herd. 



But this does not apply to the great beast which was 

 the object of our coming to the Lado, the square-mouthed 

 or, as it is sometime jaiseaifed, the white, rhinoceros. 



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