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LXX 



Company promotion, one would have said, had 



long since touched every corner of every 

 The Extinc- 

 tion of Wild field of enterprise, but it has been re- 

 Animals 



served for the autumn of 1895 to witness 



the launch of a scheme not likely to have many 

 rivals. The arena of operations is South Africa, yet 

 this project has nothing to do with mining, agricul- 

 ture, or colonisation. It is not philanthropic either, 

 but philozootic; its object being to preserve from 

 extinction some of the nobler forms of life which 

 are disappearing so fast before advancing civilisa- 

 tion. It is announced that the British South Africa 

 Company have placed two hundred thousand acres 

 in Mashonaland at the disposal of the Society for 

 a big game preserve, as soon as they can show them- 

 selves in a financial position to enclose and maintain 

 it. 15,000 are offered in 1 shares, and the 

 names of those gentlemen who have joined the 

 council are a sufficient guarantee that the money 

 will be rightly applied. 



In truth, it is a sorrowful story that comes to us 

 from South Africa. The orgies of slaughter that 

 finished off the magnificent herds of bison in North 



