In Wildest Africa 



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variegated skin of the leopard — all these are souvenirs 

 and trophies that have the greatest charm for the hunter ; 

 of the greatest charm and value if he himself has taken 

 them, and not merely (to use the sharp words with which 

 Roosevelt scourges such practices) contracted for their 

 capture. The German sportsman must contend for all 

 these trophies against certain unsportsmanlike elements, 

 such as the Boers, who unfortunately seem to be now 

 exterminating the wild animals on Kilimanjaro ; but they 

 belong to the sportsman mucli more than to such as these. 

 German hunters should not hesitate to take by sportsman- 

 like methods their fair share of the stock of big game, 

 and in this way, as has long been the case in India and 

 Ceylon, a code of customs of the chase will grow up in 

 the German colonies, suited to the special circumstances 

 of the country. In a publication by Captain Schlobach, 

 that is well worth reading, it was recently stated that the 

 military posts at Olgoss and Sonjo on the Masai uplands 

 were continually at starvation point, and, in default of 

 other supplies, had often recently been provisioned entirely 

 with the spoils of the chase.' What would not German 

 sportsmen (who contribute such large sums to the colonies) 

 have given to be able to shoot these wild animals, and 

 at the same time to help to spread in our colonies the 

 ideals ol the chase as understood in Germany, and to 

 assist in the creneral recognition and success of German 

 sportsmanship ! 



Our knowledge of the animal world ot foreign lands 



' Cf. Schlobach, DcutSih-Ostafrikau. Zcitg. i Bciblatt, lo Fcbiuar, 

 1906 



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