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reserve is up to 100/., or in default, six months with 

 °r without hard labour, but outside the reserve the 

 game laws are good and stringent. The same 

 penalties are provided for killing any of the follow- 

 Hlg kinds of game at any time and under any 

 circumstances : elephant, hippo., buffalo, eland, 

 giraffe, red hartebeest, Lichtenstein hartebeest, 

 kudu, sassaby, rhinoceros, quagga, zebra, ostrich, 

 r °an antelope, sable antelope, blue wildebeest, 

 black wildebeest, waterbuck, reedbuck. 



Of course it is difficult to watch all the natives, 

 out the constabulary have instructions to do all 

 they can. 



As far as I can make out we have in the game 

 reserve here, one old rhino, (full of lead), one small 

 herd of elephants, a fair stock of ostriches, five to 

 rune giraffes, a nice stock of wildebeest, a great 

 *°t of impala, two or three nice lots of a dozen or so 

 each of buffalo, a nice stock of Burchell's zebra, a 

 fticc stock of klipspringers, where there are kopjies, 

 plenty of waterbuck, plenty of reedbuck, plenty 

 °f bushbuck, a nice stock of kudu, a few sassaby, a 

 * e w roan antelope, sable antelope doubtful, eland 

 doubtful if any left. I wonder if we could get a 

 consignment from anywhere ? 



I cannot make out if the mountain zebra exists 

 anywhere in South Africa. It is extinct here if it 

 ever existed, though I saw one with a travelling 

 show that came here. 



