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ceros, and for each animal killed, a special fee has to be 

 paid. A less expensive license allows one to kill antelope, 

 gazelle, and warthog. All other animals and birds may 

 be shot by the holder of an ordinary gun license. These 

 regulations might well be revised and made still more 

 useful, and no doubt Capt. Stanley S. Flower, who has 

 lately been appointed Director of the Soudan Wild 

 Animal Department, will see to it that better protection 

 is afforded to many scarce animals, such as giraffes and 

 some of the rarer antelopes.* 



Having obtained all the necessary permits as well as bag- 

 gage and riding animals, our next task was to engage 

 servants. We eventually gathered together a motley 

 and somewhat amusing crowd. The chief of these one 

 Hassan Mahomet El Shami, an Egyptian we brought 

 from Cairo, and he proved in every way an excellent 

 interpreter and hard-working headman and servant. 

 Mustapha, who hailed from Berber, was a cook as well 

 as a lazy and perfidious rascal. Mahomet an old 



* The Soudan game laws have been considerably altered since this 

 was written, and many more animals and birds are now protected 

 throughout the Soudan. As the regulations are somewhat compli- 

 cated, I cannot refer to them here beyond expressing an appreciation 

 of the wisdom with which they have been drawn up. Those 

 interested in this question should obtain a copy of a pamphlet issued 

 by the authority of the Soudan Government, entitled "Notes for 

 Travellers and Sportsmen in the Soudan," in which the game laws 

 are set forth. 



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