96 ALAS ! FOE THE BIG GAME 



loss. There are so few giraffes left that one feels no 

 gratitude to the author for his elaborate instructions 

 how to ride these animals down. 



The elephant has practically disappeared from Lake 

 Ngami. Within two years of the discovery of this 

 lake by Livingstone nine hundred elephants were 

 slaughtered on its shores. Later, some Boer hunters 

 drove a herd of one hundred and four into a marsh 

 and butchered every one of them before set of sun. 

 Carnage on this scale can never be repeated. II n'y 

 a pas de quoi. Will the British Government and the 

 Chartered Company not combine to make a great 

 sanctuary of some 100,000 acres hi Mashonaland, and 

 so protect us from the execration of posterity for 

 permitting the extirpation of some of the grandest of 

 living creatures ? 



