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brother Boer must be excepted ; for, save in the 

 rarest instances, he will first clear his farm of every 

 living thing and then proceed, if possible, to repeat 

 the process on that of his neighbour. There are also 

 likely, in suitable situations, to be private game 

 reserves with shooting lodges built on them which may 

 be hired and where sport as sport is likely for very 

 many years to come to be as good as it was even in 

 the earliest days. Such spots will, of course, be rare 

 and only on such areas where the method forms the 

 most profitable means of utilising the ground. At 

 present there exist at least two such Reserves, and the 

 number is likely to be augmented in the near future. 

 Then there are the native Reserves, but from them I 

 venture to think that we cannot expect much. There 

 used to be a pleasing theory that game would always 

 be thick in the Masai Reserves because this tribe are 

 not hunters of game. It is perfectly true that the 

 Masai do not hunt game for food ; they have but one 

 thought and that is cattle and sheep, but as surely as the 

 game interfere with the grazing for their enormous 

 herds of cattle and sheep, so surely will the game be 

 banished. To this fact anyone who has trekked 

 across Likipia of late years can bear eloquent testi- 

 mony. There are also the Forest Reserves and 

 areas, and here there is great hope of sport for many 

 generations. The forests are full of splendid game : 

 elephant, rhino, buffalo, bongo, bushbuck, leopards, 

 the giant hog and other pigs ; this game does good rather 

 than harm in that it eats the grass and other under- 

 growth and considerably lessens the danger of forest 

 fires ; its enemies in the shape of hunting tribes 

 should be easily kept in check, and finally hunting 

 and shooting in bush and forest is probably finer sport 



