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am sure that, were Mr. Selous to revisit the country over which he 

 hunted many years ago, he would not only find that game is both 

 widely distributed and in considerable quantities, but that it stands 

 in no danger of extermination. 



In North-Eastern Ehodesia there is little danger in this regard, 

 for a great part of the country is ' fly country,' and, moreover, it 

 is generally not thickly populated, while the Game Law is sound 

 and well administered. 



I have already stated the principle that industrial development 

 must not be interfered with, and with this fact few people, I think, 

 will quarrel, but at the same time it is not unlikely that in a large; 

 territory like North-Western Ehodesia, and in spite of the fact that 

 the natives have the right to shoot game at will, it may be found 

 possible to arrange one or more reserves which fulfil more or less 

 the ideal requirements as to a sufficient area to allow for reasonable 

 migration and so on ; and if it is possible to do this I am sure that 

 not only will the British South Africa Company do all it can to 

 establish such reserves, but that it will lose no precious time in 



doing so. 



E. T. Cokyndon. 



Cape Town, January 5, 1907. 



[We arc grateful to Mr. Coryndon for contributing his able and interesting 

 article to this Journal, but it will not be supposed that this Society concurs in 

 the views expressed by him with regard to Game Reserves on pages 70 and 71. 

 It is some years now since the Society strongly urged upon the Chartered 

 Company thenecessity of establishing Reserves ; and if the difficulty is that 'the 

 settlement and development of the wild countries has gone ahead so rapidly 

 of recent years,' we may be permitted to recall that this is exactly what we 

 pointed out at that time, strongly urging that the Reserves should be selected 

 before this took place. 



We contend that one of the responsibilities of the Chartered Company to 

 the Empire in return for the great privileges it has received is the preser- 

 vation of the Fauna, at least in fair numbers, for future generations. It is 

 admitted that Reserves are essential to the preservation of the species when 

 a country becomes settled, and we cannot but regret that Mr. Coryndon con- 

 templates the necessity, even after he has established such Reserves, to 'throw 

 them open to the farmer or the miner.' Such a policy seems to us to magnify 

 the claims of the shareholder at the cost of those of the Empire.— Editor.] 



