THE WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIRE. 



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making unprovoked attacks on small boats, dugouts, 

 etc. Quite recently a Bcrthon boat, carrying the 

 mail for the north, was attacked and sunk, the 

 mail and two rifles lost, the two men in the boat 

 narrowly escaping." 



Mr. Buxton, if I understand rightly, also advo- 

 cates that Darfour, Kardofan, and the region about 

 the Sobat— districts which are at present closed— 

 should be thrown open to sportsmen. I agree with 

 Sir Keginald Wingate, whose opinion is generally 

 shared by the most competent authorities in the 

 Sudan, that, for the present, this would not be at 

 all desirable. The attack made by the Agar Dinkas 

 on Lieutenant Scott-Barbour's party last year, 

 which resulted in the death of that officer, and the 

 despatch of a small punitive expedition, is of itself 

 sufficient to show the necessity for caution in 

 dealing with this subject. 



