WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



days, and rarely lose one. Vultures and marabous act 

 as unfailing guides. Some Wandorobbo tribes use also 

 poisoned spears on their dangerous hunt. 



There seems to be no reason why the African elephant 

 may not be tamed and educated as well as the Asiatic 

 species. This might be done by Indian trainers. 



The African natives, who frequently capture calves, 

 do not rear them, because they would be of no use to 

 them. Besides, only the cattle-raising tribes could 

 keep them alive until they were able to quit a milk 

 diet. Moreover, the climatic and topographical con- 

 ditions are so different in Africa from those in India 

 that it is an open question whether it would pay to 

 press this giant animal into the service of man in the 

 "Dark Continent." 



How the fauna of Africa has changed within com- 

 paratively recent years! Fifty years ago the coun- 

 tries now comprised in German Southwest Africa were 

 teeming with herds of elephants and rhinoceroses. W. 

 Cotton-Oswell wrote in those days: "Vardon was the 

 most enthusiastic rhinoceros hunter ; he filled his wagon 

 with rhinoceros horns, as I did mine with ivory; he 

 used to shoot four or five every day, and there was al- 

 ways a freshness about the sport to him which seemed 

 remarkable. He was an all - round shot, but best at 

 rhinoceros. ..." 



This was in the good old time when men like Oswell 

 decimated the enormous herds of South Africa, and 



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