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foreigner more heavily for his sport than the 

 native. Otherwise, there is no " native ques- 

 tion " in America, for the Red Indian, where 

 not kept as a park animal in Government 

 Reservations, is in a fair way of following the 

 buffalo. Nor is the native question a difficulty 

 in framing the game laws of India, since not 

 by any means all of the natives eat meat, and 

 the vast majority outside of the cities follow 

 the more peaceful occupation of agriculture. 

 In Africa, on the other hand, as has already 

 been pointed out, the meat-eating natives are 

 a factor of some complexity. The opinions of 

 authorities have already been quoted as hold- 

 ing armed natives to be the worst offenders, 

 and no game law could be effectual that did 

 not take their operations into account. 



Morocco is practically the only settled 

 country in Africa without game . laws, and 

 when the French have completed the "pacific 

 penetration," as it is called, of that country, 

 they will probably frame restrictions for the 

 protection of the aoudad and gazelle. These 

 are, with wild boar, the only game to be taken 

 into account, for the bear and stag of the 

 Atlas (or of that portion of the range, at any 

 rate, within the borders of Morocco) are either 

 imaginary or extinct. Mohammedans do not 

 approve of game laws any more than they 

 concern themselves with forestry. It may be 



