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efforts to protect game that are being made elsewhere, [n tl 

 Transvaal something like £5,000 a year is expended on a sma 

 reserve under the direction of Major Stevenson-Hamilton. 



<2. Regarding the Boer colony in German territory and 

 the border of our Southern Reserve, I am informed by Mr. Ams- 

 worth, the Sub-Commissioner, Nairobi, that this colony has now 

 broken up, and that the Boers arc trekking northward in the hope 

 of finding land near Nairobi. There should, therefore, be no 

 difficulty in controlling them in future, in the matter of shooting 



ga ™3 I fully agree with Mr. Peroival that the position of the 

 Southern Reserve is in every way satisfactory, and that it covers 

 the migration of the greater part of the game found within , 

 limits There are something like 27 species of game found in this 

 Reserve out of a total of about 56 species and sub-species known 



" %£?$£%* « Jubaland," half of the present North,,, 

 Reserve was created some years ago when the Naivasha lrovince 

 formed part of the Uganda Protectorate. The principal object of 

 this (Juhaland) Reserve was the protection of the elephant It 

 was however, soon found that traders passmg 1-armgo bi.at.on 

 and proceeding northwards into the Suk and Turkana countries 

 wv.re entering this Reserve from the west, in the vicinity of 

 Eoroahi, and were destroying great numbers of elephants. 



' Vlso about that time a large so-called sporting expedition, 

 under a Frenchman named Sporck, was reported to be on its _waj 

 out en route for Abyssinia and the. Nile, vid Barmgo and Lake 

 Eudolph, and as nothing further was known about the expedition 

 and its objects, Sir Harry Johnston declared the Suk and Turkana 

 countries a game reserve. This was known as the Bogota Reserve 

 of the Uganda Protectorate, and it now forms he western, portion 

 of the present Northern Reserve. This Northern Reserve is a 

 present outside the limits of our effective administration, and 

 until recently continued to be the happy hunting-ground 

 Somali, Baluoh and other traders, who killed largo numbers ol 

 elephants without let or hindrance. This destruo ion is now 

 checked by tbe more rigid enforcement of the Outlying Districts 

 Ordinance, and no .one is allowed to enter these districts without 



* P °Unfil such a time as the Came Ranger can visit the Northern 

 Reserve and submit a report and recommendations I agree with 

 Mr Percival that, it would be better not to reduce the area. ine 

 principal object of this Reserve should continue to be the preser- 

 vation of the elephant, and this will probably prove feasible even 

 if the western or Bogota half is eventually thrown open bve.y 

 species <»f game known to exist in the Bogota half is found m equal 

 plenty in the Jubaland half. . 



<4. The regulation regarding the sale ol horns and skins is 



^ST however, to bo regretted that in German East Africa 



