GENERAL NOTES 135 



To take toll of the game is legitimate ; to wantonly 

 destroy is unsportsmanlike and ungentlemanly, and 

 does not show forethought for those who follow 

 after. 



Somewhere a sportsman has been defined as " a 

 man who, having the attribute of sportsmanship fully 

 developed, uses it in a skilful manner, by which he 

 shall obtain for himself and others the greatest possible 

 amount of sport." 



Carefully drafted and strictly enforced Game Laws 

 not only bring into the exchequer of each country 

 considerable sums through licences, payments to natives 

 which in part, at least, revert to the Government in 

 taxes, etc., and in many other ways make game a sound 

 asset, but perpetuate for all time a paradise for the 

 big-game hunter, and preserve a fauna which is of 

 interest to the ever increasing body of naturalists. 

 Thus should all Governments try to see their way to 

 prevent the total extermination of the big and small 

 game of the world, both from a sentimental and business 

 point of view. 



Perhaps the example is Africa, where the Government 

 has seen the advantage of preserving the wild fauna, 

 in consequence of which a goodly number of sportsmen 

 visit that continent to shoot its big game. East Africa 

 easily holds the palm for attracting the big-game shot, 

 principally because it is quickly and comfortably 

 reached, a good railway takes one within easy striking 

 distance of the game veldt, and the visitor finds the 



