14 GAME PRESERVERS AND BIRD PRESERVERS. 



But when man appears and assumes his domi- 

 nion over the beasts of the field and the fowls 

 of the air, the mission of these murderers and 

 cannibals is at an end. They disappear before 

 him all over the world, and it is worthy of remark 

 that all the creatures which man feeds upon 

 increase and prosper in a wonderful manner ; 

 the protection he gives them by destroying 

 their natural enemies so far out-balancing the 

 injury he inflicts upon them by killing them 

 himself when he requires them. 



The sheep was doubtless a rare animal 

 "before he was used as food by man, and only 

 maintained his existence because his warm 

 woollen coat enabled him to live at an altitude 

 where but few beasts of prey cared to follow 

 him, while now he is one of the most nume- 

 rous and one of the happiest animals in the 

 world. Since sheep-farming has become gene- 

 ral at the Cape of Good Hope, the jackal, 

 which was so plentiful in 1850 that the 7th 

 Dragoon Guards imported a pack of English 



