58 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF 



No. 9. 



EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF SIR ALFRED 

 SEABPE, THE COMMISSIONER IN BRITISH 

 CENTRAL AFRICA, 1901-2, AND MAJOR F. B. 

 PEARCE FOR 1903. 



GAME PRESERVATION. 



New regulations for the preservation of game have 

 been promulgated, which carry out the principles 

 agreed upon at the International Game Conference 

 held in London in 1900. Game docs not appear to 

 be on the decrease in the Protectorate, except, 

 possibly, in the immediate vicinity of European 

 settlements. In Angoniland there are still large 

 numbers of elephants ; in this district a few months 

 ago I met with a herd containing over 100. In 

 Angoniland the elephants do a considerable amount 

 of damage every year to the native grain planta- 

 tions. When on these garden-robbing expeditions 

 they go in large bands, and the Angoni state that 

 it is always the tuskless bulls and cows which first 

 enter the plantations and do the scouting work, the 

 main body of the herd following behind. 



GAME. 



The game in the Protectorate continues to in- 

 crease. This is doubtless owing to the more 

 stringent Regulations which have been issued, and 

 also to the continued disarmament of natives. 



The total number of elephants shot has been 



