3 io A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



their best to preserve an adequate supply of game 

 animals. Unfortunately, from our point of view, 

 there are very many who, either because they 

 are averse to the presence of game or because they 

 lack the capital to develop their holdings, and so must 

 live as best they can, will destroy every head of game 

 that they can lay hands on. This large proportion 

 may at any time cause the extinction of some lovely 

 and harmless antelope. Again, there are at the 

 present time certain animals, such as the eland and 

 buffalo, which are under a taint of suspicion as bring- 

 ing in their train tsetse-fly or other obnoxious parasites, 

 and therefore are inimical to stock raising. Should 

 this suspicion develop into certainty, these species must 

 disappear from all distinct lands, and therefore, if they 

 have no settled sanctuary two of the most glorious 

 types of game animals will disappear from our midst. 

 Further, we have here a virgin country, a country 

 which has changed in no essential from time im- 

 memorial, a country over which native and game 

 alike have wandered happily and freely since the 

 Flood. Granted that you could preserve intact 

 representatives of every genus and species over the 

 various farms and other artificial divisions into which 

 the country is now being divided, you cannot preserve 

 the natural conditions and type of country under and 

 over which the game flourished." 



One may take it that it was such or similar argu- 

 ments which led here, as in America, Canada, and 

 South Africa, to the formation of Game Reserves. 



At the present moment in British East Africa there 

 are in existence two large Reserves, one of which 

 shelters the more southerly varieties of game found in 

 the Protectorate and one the more northerly. 





