WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



lope - skins are exported unchecked, fraudulently de- 

 clared as cattle-hides. 



The interests of commerce and the laws for the pro- 

 tection of wild game clash irreconcilably. The small 

 furs of the "pelele" and of certain monkeys have also 

 become articles of trade, and the number of these harm- 

 less animals is decreasing correspondingly with the de- 

 mand for their skins. It is thus the merchant, not the 

 sportsman, and collector, who is responsible for the 

 devastations wrought in the fauna of Africa. Even 

 the mere hunter does not kill simply to kill, but for the 

 sport of it. His trophies hardly count when compared 

 with the results of systematic slaughter perpetrated in 

 the name of commerce, of progress, and civilization. 



While North Africa, the coast lands of which zoo- 

 geographically belong to the Mediterranean zone, is the 

 home of a wild hog resembling our own wild, black hogs, 

 in the countries south of the Sahara are found several 

 other species of wild hogs, one near rivers and in the 

 more settled parts of East Africa, another in the vast 

 Masai districts. The latter, the wart-hog, is phenome- 

 nally ugly, as its name implies, having a number of big 

 warts and cutaneous protuberances about its head. The 

 wart-hog (Phacochccriis Mthiopiciis) is not uncommon 

 near the Kilimanjaro. To hunt a strong, full-grown 

 boar is both exciting and profitable to a plucky sports- 

 man, for his tusks are valuable trophies. The wild hog 

 does a great deal of damage to plantations and fields, 



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