22 Supplement 1918 



and flora of the land take their greatest extension and their 

 highest development. In the New World the sea cuts far too 

 deeply into the land on both sides of the American continent 

 in intertropical latitudes to permit its having the extension 

 required for multiplication and development on such a grand 

 scale as we see in the Old World and especially in Africa. 



Big Game, in the meaning applied to it in Africa, was repre- 

 sented in America practically only by the Buffalo. In Africa it 

 is, or was, represented by at least a score of different animals, such 

 as the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Hippopotamus, the Giraffe, 

 many Buffaloes and, above all, the Lion, King of Beasts. All 

 of these names have been familiar to us since our childhood, 

 not as matters of history, but as the^actual and rightful owners 

 and occupants of a large part of the habitable world. 



But besides the magnificent brute inhabitants of the conti- 

 nent there is the human species, the Black Man. It may be 

 that he is the only representative of the fauna of Africa that 

 will successfully resist extermination by civilisation. If he 

 does succeed in this it will be because, on his own ground, he is 

 stronger than the White Man with all his perfected instruments 

 of death. 



However, the black men are still the human population 

 of the greater part of the continent of Africa. They are 

 very numerous and perfectly adapted for work in an equatorial 

 climate. It may therefore suit the white man, who shall domi- 

 nate their country, to preserve them for economic and military 

 purposes. But even though he persisted only in a state of 

 slavery, his survival would not be artificial. It would be as 

 natural as that of his master, because he is the fitter of the two 

 in the conditions obtaining, and they are permanent. Therefore 

 the retention of the black man, however accomplished, preserves 

 the possibility of a reaction, which is out of the question when 

 the race, whether of man or beast, has been exterminated. 



In order that the reader may be able to form an idea of the 

 conditions of life in the equatorial part of the African continent, 

 before civilisation had made much progress in its murderous 

 work, his attention is directed to Gordon Cumming's well 

 known book, entitled Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far 



