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of meat for the winter, has a better justification 

 for what he does. He has the justification of 

 necessity, which the sportsman has not. Still 

 it is the men who live in the country, and who 

 of necessity are constantly killing the game, 

 without regard to age or sex, who will gradually 

 bring about its extinction ; not the casual 

 sportsman looking for a few good heads of old 

 males. 



Loving as 1 do— with the passionate love of 

 one, all the best years of whose life were spent 

 in the wilderness — the sight of wild animals in 

 their natural surroundings, I look upon the 

 gradual extermination of game throughout the 

 world by the encroachments of civilization upon 

 their haunts, with the utmost regret. Con- 

 sequently I am of the opinion that Mr. E. N. 

 Buxton and his colleagues deserve the warmest 

 thanks of all lovers of wild life, for the 

 strenuous efforts they have made and are 

 making to preserve from destruction the wild 

 fauna of the Empire. 



However, there are yet vast areas of British 

 Africa and the far north and west of British 



