With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



Some armed natives killed as many in one single clay 

 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 davs -of the beautiful wild buffalo are numbered in 



- to 



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

 species that have died out. 



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