-> The Preservation of African (iainc 



natives of India have contrived to live comfortably side 

 by side with herds of elephants. Hippopotamuses are so 

 apt to destroy plantations that they certainly have- to be 

 got rid of in all neighbourhoods in which Europeans 

 settle down. Elephants also are often very destructive 

 in the same way. The preservation of elephants is 

 undoubtedly against the interests of European colonists ; 

 and indeed the; preservation of any species of wild animal 

 would seem to be against the interests of colonists. 



Baboons, which any one; is free to kill, are also very 

 harmful to plantations. Cultivators of millet and other 

 grains have to employ watchmen to keep oft both the 

 apes and small birds from the crops during the very brief" 

 period when these: are ripening. The natives erect sheds, 

 raised up on four poles, and from these-, with the help of 

 ropes, which they fasten across their fielels, and to which 

 they attach feathers and other scares, they frighten away 

 wilel boars, which elo a lot of damage to crops, and which 

 are difficult to get rid of. 



Besides these,- animals and many roelents and 

 meerkats, certain of the smaller ante-lopes occasionally 

 are- a nuisance: to settlers. All othe-r kinds of animals 

 avoid the neighbourhood of man, and ke-<-p away on 

 the velt, where the-y can do ne> injury. Rhinoceroses 

 especially are very seldom known to come near inhabited 

 districts, anel the; same may be said of giraffes and the 

 larger antelopes. I am anxious to insist upon this point. 

 because both Prince- Lo\ve:nste-in and myself were assured, 

 greatly to our surprise, that the: giraffe exce-eds all other 

 animals in the: wav it elcstrovs the: East African forests. 



