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nearest official of what he had killed and request him to send and 

 remove what portion of the animal the Government might claim. 



I am sure that the settler with a large holding, and the best of 

 the small men, will be the last to wish to exterminate game ; and 

 to regard the settlers as a class as antagonistic to the preservation 

 of game is to do them a great injustice, and is not advisable in the 

 interest of the game itself. The settler will not kill or wound the 

 same quantity of animals as were killed and wounded before and 

 during the construction of the Uganda Eailway. Treat the settler 

 I'ai rly as regards game, and the good ones will preserve it ; and I 

 hope the authorities will be down on anyone who slaughters or 

 wantonly kills beyond his limit. The men who wish to keep game 

 on their holdings will uphold and assist the game-ranger ; and I 

 hope all officials will do the same, and when he applies to a district 

 ior information for detection of breaches of game regulations he 

 will get all the information that can be possibly obtained. 



The present measures taken for the preservation of the fauna 

 of East Africa are inadequate, and require immediate attention. 

 They consist of — 



1. Eestrictions as to species and number of species to be killed. 



2. A game-ranger with inadequate means of travelling and 

 watching. 



3. Three Game Eeserves, none of which are worthy of the name. 

 The first Eeserve, the only one which can be really spoken of 



as such, is the Southern or Masailand Eeserve. This would be 

 an excellent Eeserve, were it one in reality, but when the following 

 facts occur, it ceases to be one ; 



1. Some Wand'robo, who subsist entirely on game, hunt in a 

 portion of it. 



2. It is poached from German territory, and since the inception 

 of the Boer settlement on the border has been visited and shot 

 over by small parties of four or five men. One party told an 

 official they were shooting at trees. Boers always have been fond 

 of wasting ammunition ! 



3. I believe some land in the Eeserve has been granted to 

 settlers. 



4. Officers on the Boundary Commission were allowed to kill 

 a certain quantity of game. A Eeserve ceases to be a sanctuary 

 when shot in, and I fail to understand why officers performing 

 their duty should be allowed such extraordinary latitude. 



It is the principle which is objectionable, and leave to officers 

 to shoot in a Eeserve should be only granted under most excep- 

 tional circumstances, and then only leave for a most limited 

 amount. I have heard of it being suggested that because an 

 officer holds an appointment and a licence in one British Pro- 

 tectorate he should be allowed to shoot in any other he chose to 

 visit. I believe in the case of the Boundary Commission leave 

 was given to members to shoot under very strict regulations. I 

 hope this was so. Private persons who have done survey work 

 generally tell me they find very little time to shoot. 



