860 GAME RESERVES 



Mozambique Company's territory is no longer 

 what it was, and game must now be worked for so 

 hardly as to make it doubtful whether the result 

 justifies the outlay and hardship involved. I 

 believe the Company have established one game 

 reserve, but my recollection is that it was selected 

 at a spot where at no time were animals very 

 plentiful nor varieties extraordinarily diversified. 

 I doubt, therefore, if it has served any strikingly 

 useful purpose, the more so as I have never heard 

 of the appointment of any person possessed of 

 technical knowledge or trained observation in the 

 capacity of warden, nor have I seen any published 

 reports of the results of the experiment. 



The only other game reserves within the 

 Portuguese possessions in East Africa are at 

 Inhambane, of which one never hears anything, 

 and in the extreme south of the district of 

 Lourengo Marques. Regarding the latter, my 

 charge against the Mozambique Company rela- 

 tive to lack of trained personnel repeats itself, 

 and with this addition, namely, that the authori- 

 ties actually permit on occasion privileged persons 

 to shoot within the limits of this sanctuary. 

 This I have never heard of the Mozambique 

 Company doing, but then I do not suppose that 

 the contents of their reserve would justify them 

 in doing so. 



In the Nyasaland Protectorate there are two 

 game reserves which up to 1911 had admirably 

 fulfilled their humane purpose, and whose 

 sanctity had, I think, never been violated. 

 Unhappily in that year the restrictions placed 



