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Natal, and the Orange Free State. Licences 

 may cost as much as ^75 in Bechuanaland 

 and 50 in Portuguese South-East Africa, but 

 the sums, as well as the close times, are con- 

 stantly being altered. It is pleasant to observe 

 that the penalties for infringement of these 

 laws are really exacted from white men, two 

 of whom, some years ago, served a year's im- 

 prisonment in default of paying fines of ^120 

 for shooting two white rhinoceroses on a 

 reserve in Zululand. 



In Canada, where, again, we have Dominion 

 law and Provincial law, there is a very com- 

 plicated system of regulations. The deer, 

 goats, and sheep of British Columbia are 

 protected absolutely during nine months of the 

 year, and non-residents have to take out a 

 licence costing fifty dollars and allowing them 

 to shoot, in each season, only two bull moose, 

 two bull wapiti, ten deer, and five caribou, 

 mountain-goat and mountain -sheep. Thus, 

 with such restrictions, gunners no longer flock 

 to British Columbia, as they did formerly, to 

 make a business of killing. Visitors to New 

 Brunswick have to take out a licence costing 

 twenty dollars. There is some confusion in 

 the matter of fishing licences, and on one 

 occasion, when salmon fishing in the Miram- 

 ichi, I was compelled to take out a Provincial 

 licence, whereas others of my acquaintance 



