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Incidentally, advantage was taken of this interview to discuss 

 other measures of protection. Mr. Coryndon has since sent us, 

 among others, the important Proclamation by his Excellency the 

 High Commissioner dealing with the game regulations in Barotxi 

 Land. Under this Ordinance the administrator will have power to 

 protect absolutely certain species or classes of game within certain 

 areas, and to endorse any conditions on a licence, to declare any 

 tract of land to be a Game Eeserve, to forbid the sale of game, to put 

 a heavy duty on exportation of trophies, together with other useful 

 provisions. Certain Eeserves have been established in this impor- 

 tant territory, which is the only remaining area in South Africa 

 where the larger game can be described as being still abundant 

 and varied. It is much to be hoped that these Eeserves are 

 adequate to cover the migrations. The correspondence with the 

 British South Africa Company which followed is published in 

 this volume on page 68. 



An influential deputation has also waited on the Eight Hon. 

 Alfred Lyttelton as Colonial Secretary. For the reason already 

 given — the fact that vast territories are coming for the first time 

 under the protection of the Colonial Office- we naturally attach 

 the greatest importance to the favourable view expressed by him, 

 and we have, therefore, printed in this number a full report of 

 that interview. 



We make it our business to search the official reports from the 

 various Protectorates for references to the subject of the preserva- 

 tion of the fauna, and it is satisfactory to note a growing sense 

 of the importance of this asset of the Empire as an element of 

 attraction to would-be colonists. Several extracts from these 

 reports are printed in this number. 



Hitherto our attention has been chiefly drawn to our posses- 

 sions on the East Coast of Africa. It is to be hoped that the 

 same attention will shortly be drawn to the subject in our 

 Nigerian Protectorates, if that is not already the case. We have 

 searched in vain for any reference to the subject in the report 

 dated November 1904. 



The sudden and rapid influx of settlers in British East Africa 

 has raised questions which in some cases have been dealt with in 

 a way not entirely satisfactory from our point of view. It lnust 

 bo remembered that this territory contains the most varied fauna 

 surviving in any part of the Empire. The well-devised Eeserve 

 which extends from the Tsavo Eiver to the Eift Valley has been 

 our main reliance for the permanent conservation of species in 

 that Protectorate. To our great regret we understand that con- 

 siderable grants of land have been made to settlers within this 

 Eeserve. This not only gravely compromises its sanctity and. adds 

 to the difficulty of safeguarding the remainder, but would seem to 

 have been needless in view of the large area of elevated upland, 

 suitable for occupation by white men, which remains vacant. 



It will be seen that, while the reception of the deputation wa» 

 sympathetic, the 'eternal want of pence' stands in the way of what 



