The Preservation of Big Game 



that the Masai has gone there. They are not a 

 hunting tribe. More power to their elbow ! The 

 Lake Shirwa and Elephant Marsh reserves, in 

 British Central Africa, much farther south, near 

 the Zambesi, finish the roster on the East Coast, 

 and do untold good. 



To wind up and sum up the whole question 

 into the proverbial nutshell : Disease can't very 

 well be helped, and the slaying of animals by 

 carnivora can't be helped at all, as they will work 

 their wicked will at all hazards, and all the laws 

 of the prophets can't stop it. The black man 

 nuisance can, to a great extent, be avoided by 

 stringent laws and the withdrawal of licences, 

 whilst to crown the lot, let us have a code of rules 

 for stalking and shooting, properly published 

 and of wide-world fame, for the use of the novice 

 as well as of the past master, One lives and 

 learns, and there are many others who want to 

 do the same, to say nothing of those who will 

 follow and are not even yet thought of. 



It seems now quite time that I should " dry 

 up," as it is elegantly termed, for the reason I 

 can find no more to say about the animals which 

 I have brought under this brief discussion. 



The animals that have been described are 



those that may be met with ordinarily in any 



shooting trip in East Africa ; some are common 



as dirt, others rare ; but if the latter are sought 



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