1 6 THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 



other hand, as said before, will probably never be occu- 

 pied. It is not fitted for agriculture, the rainfall is slight, 

 water is scarce; it is not adapted to grazing, for tsetse is 

 everywhere. The game has it all, and will continue to 

 have it all. Indiscriminate shooting during a great 

 many years -and by a great many people would hardly 

 affect this marvellous abundance over so extensive an 

 area; but, of course, indiscriminate shooting in these 

 modern days of game laws is impossible. The supply 

 is practically unlimited, and is at present threatened 

 with no influence likely to diminish it. 



For the next five or ten years this country will, in 

 addition, possess for the really enterprising sportsman 

 the interest of exploration. Our brief expedition de- 

 termined merely the existence of the game country, 

 and, roughly, its east-to-west extent. We were too 

 busily engaged in getting on, and in finding our way, 

 to do as thorough a job as would have been desirable. 

 Even along the route we followed months could be 

 spent finding and mapping waterholes, determining the 

 habitat of the animals, searching out the little patches 

 where extremely local beasts might dwell, casting out 

 on either side one, two, three days' marches to fill in 

 gaps of knowledge. 



To the south of us lay a great area we had no opportu- 

 nity even of approaching, and concerning which we heard 

 fascinating accounts — for example, the Serengetti,* a 



* Not to be confused with the Serengetti near Tsavo. 



