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like Knysna Forest and the Addo Bush in Cape 

 Colony. The rhinoceros must go, and so, I suppose, 

 must the picturesque but useless hippopotamus. 

 These two eliminated, therefore, the elephant in 

 chains, and the remaining game families located in 

 well-defined reserves, Africa will then present an 

 aspect towards which all our energies should be 

 directed, and all our regulations be framed. 



Again, touching the question of licences. In the 

 district of Zambezia, outside the concession of the 

 Mozambique Company, which has its own game 

 laws, the regulations in force are those enacted by 

 the central Government of Lourenco Marques. 

 They are extremely reasonable, but, in my opinion 

 at least, they do not fulfil the purpose for which 

 they were intended, since there is no check on the 

 number of beasts which a licence-holder has shot. 

 I have noticed that most of the men who come to 

 shoot in Africa insist upon taking as much out of 

 the country as they can, within reasonable limits ; 

 and so long as there is no supervision, cases will 

 occur in which the regulations will be broken, and 

 the number of beasts designated by the licence 

 exceeded. At Beira there is a rather salutary 

 measure in force which necessitates the production 

 by the sportsman of his trophies, together with a 

 declaration specifying them, and signed by the 

 district official within whose jurisdiction they were 

 shot. This has done much, no doubt, to check 

 illicit slaughter, and I think it might with advan- 

 tage be adopted in other hunting centres. 



