THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT 



when the Boers on their northward advance into the 

 veldt slaughtered all kinds of game — the time of which 

 he only has an idea who, like myself, has been privileged 

 to hunt in countries with a virgin fauna. 



The process of extermination, so successfully carried 

 out in the south, is merrily progressing in equatorial 

 Africa, especially in the western parts; for, not so 

 long ago, the governor of German Kamerun granted the 

 black elephant hunters permission to use breech-loaders. 

 We may retard the complete extinction of the biggest 

 of mammals; we will hardly be able to prevent it. 



The day is not far off, I am afraid, when to the ques- 

 tion, "Quid novi ex Africa?" the answer must be given, 

 "They have killed the last of the African elephants." 



