CHAPTER IX 



GENERAL NOTES 



In the preceding chapters the big and small game 

 hunter has been discussed, his equipment, the pursuit 

 of his quarry, and the uses to which his trophies and 

 curios can be put for the beautifying and decorating 

 of his home. 



But th^fe are still several points that have sug- 

 gested themselves, or could not well have come 

 within what has already been written, about which it 

 may be both useful and desirable to say something. 



Game Laws. — There are few countries in the world, 

 where game of any kind is found, that have not now 

 some form of Game Law, more or less rigidly en- 

 forced, especially in those territories or States well 

 known to all sportsmen as big-game countries. 



Before the advent of these laws, vast territories had 

 been denuded of their game, more especially the 

 larger beasts, as the bison of North America, and the 

 innumerable wildebeest, eland, etc., that once overran 

 the high veldt of South Africa. 



Even now the process of destruction and ultimate 



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