With' Flashlight and Rifle -* 



Some armed natives killed as many in one single day 

 about two years ago on the lower Pangani River. 



I have known some curious pretexts put forward for 

 he killing of buffaloes by Askaris, pretexts designed to 

 evade the already existing protection-laws. A non- 

 commissioned officer informed me, for instance, that a 

 buffalo of which the horns had been brought him by an 

 Askari had attacked a village, and had therefore had to 

 be killed. And in another case I was actually told that 

 a buffalo, whose horns I saw at a station, had been 

 found drowned by the Askari who had brought him. 

 Well, I suppose it is not to be expected that regulations 

 can be easily enforced in a far-off land. In any case, 

 the days of the beautiful wild buffalo are numbered in 

 East Africa, and soon he will be on the list of the 

 species that have died out. 



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