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The only thing to do in this case is to deport the native 

 inhabitants and leave these areas vacant for some years, 

 when the disease would die out. It is useless expecting that_ 

 the game can be exterminated in such vast stretches of 

 country, for an army of good shots would make little differ- 

 ence to it. Doubtless many animals would be killed, but 

 the majority of the game would only leave for pastures new, 

 and this, instead of getting rid of the disease, would only 

 tend to spread it through the country. 



If some contagious disease could be discovered to sweep 

 away the tsetse flies, this would be the best way, but that 

 seems almost impossible ; so the natives should be moved, 

 and, before being sent to another district, they could be care- 

 fully examined and segregated for a certain time in camps 

 under medical supervision. 



The extermination of game in a short space of time is 

 absolutely impossible in such countries as Nyasaland and 

 Northern Rhodesia, for these are heavily bushed and grassed 

 regions, and game, when much molested, simply moves on 

 until it discovers a locality where it is safe from molestation. 



Those who agitate for the slaughter of game should bear 

 this point in mind, and remember that tropical Africa is 

 not a country of open plains like many parts of Southern 

 Africa, where it was a comparatively easy matter to 

 exterminate the game. 



In any country where game can be hunted on horseback 

 it would not take long to exterminate it or drive it into 

 other districts; but in Nyasahnd and Northern Rhodesia 

 this could not be done, as the vegetation is too dense. 

 Moreover, horses cannot be used for hunting there, as they 

 cannot stand the climate and the bites of the tsetse flies, 

 without dying very quickly of horse sickness. 



