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in itself of no ordinary beauty and charm. I am 

 told that at times, from the trains of the Uganda 

 Railway, herds upon herds of zebras and gazelles 

 may be seen, and not infrequently rhinoceroses 

 and other animals, and I think every credit is due 

 to the authorities for the timely adoption of such 

 protective measures as have secured so satisfactory 

 a result. 



But no game laws can possibly prove efficacious ; 

 no reserves can form the sanctuary they were in- 

 tended as, unless pains be taken to see that they 

 fulfil the purpose for which they were designed — 

 in a word, unless rangers are appointed to bring 

 offenders, as weU European as native, before the 

 person appointed to administer the law. Then 

 again there is another difficulty, and one which 

 must tend in the future very largely to increase, 

 and that is the responsibilities towards game laws 

 of landowners upon whose property game occurs. 

 It is not unnatural that the landed proprietor, 

 strong in the possession of his titles, should take 

 it hardly if you tell him that he may not do as 

 he will upon his own soil. He will resent inter- 

 ference. Rightly or wrongly, he will in most cases 

 have none of your visiting game-regulation official, 

 and then the authorities will have to consider a 

 position which has not as yet seriously confronted 

 them, namely, how far the presence of untamed 

 elephants and wandering rhinoceroses is consistent 

 with agriculture and husbandry. I suppose in time 

 we shall make use of elephants. They must be 

 either utilised or destroyed. All the parts of Africa 

 in which they occur are not unprofitable waste lands 



