120 Wild Life in Central Africa. 



Of course much of the game given is very localised, and 

 without a long residence in the country it would be impossible 

 to get specimens of all the species given in this list. 



With regard to elephant a special licence of rupees 150 

 is required to shoot one elephant, and the tusks must not 

 weigh under 3olb. each. To kill two elephants the charge 

 is rupees 450. 



For permission to kill one bull giraffe the licence costs 

 rupees 150, and certain districts are prescribed. 



Certainly no sportsman can complain about the limits 

 enforced ; but it is not the true sportsmen who do the 

 damage to the game of British East Africa, but the 

 unprincipled whites who get far from civilisation and 

 slaughter the game. In a former chapter I have mentioned 

 the damage the Boers do, and as that country now teems 

 with men of that race it can easily be imagined how the 

 game suffers. 



There is only one way to prevent poaching, and that is 

 to have sufficient game rangers to patrol the country 

 in parties of from two to four men with full powers to 

 apprehend and bring before the game warden the poachers 

 who are caught redhanded. 



One man is useless, as a witness is necessary, and such 

 game rangers should be given the power to resist force by 

 the use of firearms. 



I admire the Boers as a fine, manly race, and I suppose 

 most people do ; but they are not sportsmen in a true 

 sense, and they only slaughter game for the sake of the 

 hides and an occasional fine head which they keep to sell. 



The first thing to do is stop the exportation of hides and 

 game trophies unless they have been shot under licences. 



In German East Africa the decimation of the game has 

 already reached a serious state, and I take the liberty 

 of quoting an article which appeared in the Field of 

 January 6, 1912. It reads as follows: 



Our Berlin contemporary Naturivissenscha fliche Wochenschrift of 

 December 17 (1911) devotes two articles one by Professor Fritz Bein and 

 the other by Professor C. G. Schillings, to the appalling slaughter of big 



