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colonial life, has been made, and that the wildest 

 ideas are often prevalent as to what game is or is 

 not to be found within the colonial marches. 

 There is even now in the vast area of the Cape 

 Colony abundance of room for farmers as well as 

 game ; and such is likely to be the case for many 

 a year to come. It is devoutly to be hoped that 

 some effort may yet be made towards re-introducing 

 some of the lost antelopes of the Colony, such as 

 the eland, blessbok, hartebeest, and others. With 

 very little protection and care, these animals would 

 soon become plentiful, and afford good sport in 

 their ancient hunting grounds. That long years 

 may elapse before the mighty elephant, the grim 

 and gloomy buffalo, and the stately koodoo are 

 driven from the sanctuaries they now possess in 

 the dense thickets and dark-green impenetrable 

 bush-veldt of the Eastern province — before the 

 last hippo bathes his unwieldy limbs in the waters 

 of the Orange River — or before the flying springbok 

 is finally improved from the face of the Great 

 Karroo, and even from the wastes of Great Bush- 

 manland — is an aspiration that I am sure all 

 sportsmen and lovers of nature will heartily share 

 with me. 



The destruction of game in all parts of the world 

 has of late years proceeded at so alarming a rate, that 

 it is not surprising to hear simultaneously of severe 

 and stringent game laws from more than one of our 

 Colonies. The Ontario Legislature, for instance, has 

 enacted that the deer-killing season shall be confined 

 to a period between October 15th and November 

 20th. No one person is allowed to kill more than 

 five deer in a year, no two persons of the same party 



