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Still, if the Americans would enforce their own laws as 
rigidly against the native meat-hunter who makes a profit out 
of shooting as against the alien who pays for his sport, I think 
no one could justly complain. 
Of course the buffalo has disappeared, and the antelope 
is not as plentiful as he was, while some of the old shooting 
grounds dear to the memories of the fortunate hunters of 
twenty years ago have been very much shot out. This is true ; 
but it is also true that if the successors of the Williamsons, 
Buxtons, Jamiesons, and others of an earlier day would display 
as much enterprise as those gentlemen did before them, they 
would probably find fairly good sport still. 
The man who follows another to an old shooting ground, 
getting there by a well-cut trail, or even by railway, to find 
camps made and the country thoroughly surveyed, naturally 
does not get as good sport as the ‘first man in,’ and does not 
deserve it. 
An old friend, whose reputation as an Indian sportsman 
stands as high as any man’s, told me that, though the old 
grounds were certainly a good deal shot out in India, he knew 
that close to them were other grounds unvisited which were 
almost as good (if not quite as good) as the old ones, and this 
he proved by sending a subaltern nephew off an old route for 
a very short distance into a country usually passed by, with 
the result that he got almost as good sport in the nineties as his 
uncle had had in the sixties. 
So it is in America to-day. One man follows another, as 
sheep follow their leader, and if you trust to guides they will, 
of course, take you to the places they know from experience, 
an experience which has been obtained at considerable cost to 
the game of the district. 
As I write I am reminded of an excellent example of that of 
which Iam writing. There isin British Columbia a certain Irish 
baronet, a most excellent sportsman, who has probably had 
better sport with caribou and grizzly than anyone else in the 
country. His two favourite grounds are now overrun by his 
