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not, perhaps, quite correct, but it galled him to 

 think that native hunters, and especially Arab 

 ivory traders, would in future be allowed to con- 

 tinue to kill, or employ others to kill, elephants, 

 whilst he, who had been a pioneer and a man who 

 had made many of the most recalcitrant tribes 

 peaceful, and had taken all risks, should be debarred 

 from killing elephants even far away in the wilder- 

 ness, where the Government still had no real 

 authority or could prove " occupation." In virile 

 language he thus describes the man whom he 

 considers his chief enemy : " It seems that your 

 intrepid, sanctimonious, giraffe-slaying, bastard- 

 missionary, self-appointed protector of beasts (other 

 than those defenceless ones he is able to pot himself) 

 and almighty law-giver for Africa in general, psalm- 

 smiter-in-chief, this stroll-through-the-country-and- 

 know-more-about-it-than-anybody-else coadjutator 

 of yours in the Game-Preserving Society has been 

 trying to put a spoke in the wheel of your humble 

 servant. May Allah reward him ! " 



He then wrote a pamphlet for the consideration 

 of H.M.'s Deputy Commissioner (Sir F. Jackson), 

 setting forth the whole conditions of the ivory trade 

 and giving facts as to how the elephants were killed 

 by the natives. He recommended the prohibition 

 of killing all cow elephants, and personally offered 

 his services as " border agent " to control the out- 

 lying districts, with the proviso that he be allowed 

 to shoot old bulls to pay the expenses of his caravan, 



Neumann was allowed to continue to hunt in 

 the wilderness for a short time, and reached Mom- 

 basa with his ivory in July 1906. (His expenses 

 for the three years' trip were over £3000), and as 



