20 ANIMAL LIFE IN AFRICA 



In the more efficiently administered areas, although 

 females and immature animals are protected, full-aged 

 bulls are shot under licences, by sportsmen and officials, 

 and this is now beginning to result, in many places, in a 

 scarcity of such animals. However, it seems to be 

 generally agreed that the best tuskers are not found with 

 the herds, and that, at least in Uganda and on the Nile, 

 herd bulls are seldom found with tusks weighing more 

 than 40 or 50 Ibs. each. 



At the present day elephants are found in the Knysna 

 and Addo Bush in Cape Colony, where they have been 

 very little disturbed for many years, and, having to some 

 extent lost their fear of man through long immunity, are 

 on occasions extremely troublesome. There are possibly 

 a few in the northern part of Zululand, and, in Portuguese 

 East Africa, from the Maputa to the Limpopo River, they 

 are sparsely distributed along the Swaziland and Trans- 

 vaal borders. There is a small herd in the north-eastern 

 Transvaal, acquired since the institution of the Game 

 Reserve there. In the country between Beira and the 

 Zambezi there are still a good many left, but few, 

 apparently, carrying ivory of any great size. In southern 

 Rhodesia some good herds which have survived recent 

 legislation yet remian. In north-western and north- 

 eastern Rhodesia, British and Portuguese Nyasaland, 

 and Mo9ambique, elephants are still found in considerable 

 numbers, as also through parts of German and British 

 East Africa. Uganda has long been famous for the fine 

 ivory carried by its elephants, which are numerous 

 through a great part of the country, and right across from 

 the Lake Rudolph district to the Nile, being plentiful 

 in the southern Sudan. Probably, however, the Congo 

 is now the principal home of these animals, and in 

 some portions of it they unquestionably exist in immense 



