4 PENALTIES FOR ABUSES 



accept (and sometimes to solicit) privileges in 

 the nature of complimentary permits to shoot 

 in game reserves would not only abstain from 

 the discredit of asking for such a concession, but 

 would set their faces rigorously against it if 

 offered, as well as sedulously discourage its 

 acceptance by their friends or colleagues or 

 subordinates. In this way much might be done 

 to create a feeling of recognition of the inviola- 

 bility of the reserves, as also of the desirability 

 of sparing no effort to secure in other parts of 

 the various colonies a timely extension of the 

 safeguards now provided by them. 



The man who furnishes himself with a number 

 of irresistible high - velocity rifles, and fares 

 forth into the haunts of Africa's splendid fauna 

 intent only on numerical destruction, and with 

 never a thought for the perpetuation of the 

 varieties of which he is in pursuit, should either 

 be placed under restraint altogether, or so bound 

 down that, by the slaughter of one beast over 

 and above a reasonable and restricted limit, he 

 should be faced by penalties calculated in their 

 severity to act as a complete deterrent in the 

 cases of others contemplating a like offence. 



Whilst we are on this subject it is interesting 

 and instructive to find that within the last 

 year or two a new school of sport has arisen, 

 and has shown signs of attaining to popular 

 dimensions : a sport which will doubtless not 

 only add vastly to our knowledge of African 

 mammals as a whole, but whose enjoyment in 

 no way threatens to strike at the existence of 



