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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



the Sabie Game Reserves in the Transvaal, and portions 

 of Portuguese South-East Africa, especially Gazaland 

 and Maputoland, where herds of varying size still exist, 

 but which the farmers in the neighbourhood seem 

 determined to exterminate. They were fairly common 

 in parts of Rhodesia, such as Gatooma and Gwaai, &c., 

 until 1915, when they were considerably shot out. The 



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FIG. 42. Ready for his New Home. 



farmers of the Addo area are now doing their best to 

 obtain the extermination of the Addo herd. I think 

 some plan might be devised whereby such a calamity 

 can be avoided. Surely half a dozen individuals would 

 do no harm and would serve to perpetuate the herd. 



It is a mystery to me why the African Elephant has 

 not long ere this been domesticated in this country. It 

 can be tamed, as was proved in the case of the famous 

 " Jumbo " of the London Zoo, and it must have been 

 the African species which was used by the Carthaginians. 



