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than in imaginationless Cape Province. I think 
also something — but not very much — has been 
done in Natal-governed Zululand to preserve the 
wild fauna to a reasonable degree. But I believe 
I am correct in saying that the Eland and, to a 
lesser degree, Burchell's Zebra have been success- 
fully domesticated in the Transvaal. 
The Transvaal has its National Park where 
the national fauna is being preserved, but I do 
not think any such a, preserve for the delectation 
of local inhabitants and visitors has been estab- 
lished in Cape Province, in the Orange State, in 
Southern Rhodesia, or in Natal — or in Basuto- 
land, where the natives of late have simply des- 
troyed every beast and bird they could bring' down 
with a rifle or a shot-gun. 
sugge'sted game preserves. 
The scenery of Cape Province is in parts so 
extraordinarily beautiful that the remembrance of 
ii sometimes lashes me into anger against Dutch, 
British and French descended colonists alike, in 
that they have done so little to conserve its natural 
beauty. " The area of Cape Province south of the 
Orange River is something like 277,000 square 
miles. Surely in all this region not one only, but 
two, or ever three, great national parks and game 
preserves might be established wherein the Addo 
Bush elephants and buffaloes and those of Knysna 
might be given a further chance of existence for 
the interest of humanity, and where the jungle, 
forest, mountain and desert flora of Cape Province 
might be perpetuated for our admiration. The 
magnificent botanical work promoted by Lady 
Lionel Phillips and conducted by Dr. Marloth, 
should have brought home to the better educated 
amongst us in this country and in South Africa 
what an inestimable heritage Cape Province has 
received from past ages in what is known as the 
"Cape flora"; and yet the fate of this flora trem- 
bles in the balance, commercialism, indifferentism 
and lack of education alike making the citizens of 
South Africa supine, while bush fires, unthinking 
clearance of land for agricultural purposes, herds 
of browsing goats and sheep' destroy it beyond 
recall. 
The above interesting matter appeared in the 
"African World," 2nd June last. 
It was in the year 1904 that sailing from South- 
ampton on the Belgian steamer " Phillipville" for 
the Congo region, that I had the pleasure of an 
introduction to Sir Harry Johnston, who was then 
proceeding to Monrovia, Liberia, on business 
purposes. I found Sir Harry Johnston a very en- 
thusiastic partisan of Natural History. 
His one idea was to prevent the useless 
slaughter of the Big Game of the African Con- 
tinent. I believe I am right in stating that one 
noble sportsman, making for the Far Interior, 
was actually carrying a small machine gun to 
slaughter the Game. This so-called sportsman 
was turned back to the Coast, machine gun and 
all, and very rightly too. Sir Harry Johnston's 
efforts to protect the Big Game has borne good 
fruit, more especially in the Uganda Protectorate, 
of which he was the first Administrator. 
Most interesting information to the Naturalist 
and Traveller is given in his two volumes pub- 
lished in 1902: "The Uganda Protectorate." To 
Sir Harry Johnston stands the discovery of the 
Okapi (Okapia johnstoni). 
The following interesting Schedules are given 
which I reproduce knowing full well they will in- 
terest the general reader, besides which the cost 
of licences, general regulations are all to be found 
in Vol. I. 
FIRST SCHEDULE. 
Animals not to be hunted, killed, or captured, 
by any person except under Special Licence : — 
Okapi, Giraffe, Mountain or Grevy's Zebra, Wild 
Ass, White-bearded, brindled, or any other 
species of Gnu, Eland, Buffalo, Speke's Trage- 
laph, Elephant (female or young), Ostrich (female 
or young), Secretary Bird, Vulture (any species), 
Owls (any species). Whale-headed Stork, Saddle- 
billed Stork, Crowned Crane, Marabou Stork, 
Egrets. 
SECOND SCHEDULE. 
Animals, the females of which are not to be 
hunted, killed or captured when accompanied by 
their young, and the young of which are not to 
be hunted, killed, or captured, except under 
Special Licence : — Rhinocerus, Zebra (other than 
Mountain Zebra), Chevrotain, all Antelopes or 
Gabelles not mentioned in the First Schedule. 
THIRD SCHEDULE. 
Animals, limited number of which mav be 
killed or captured under a Sportsman's or Public 
Officer's Licence : — 
Kind. No. allowed. 
Elephant (male) ... ... ... ... 2 
Rhinoceros ... .... ... ... 2 
Hippopotamus ... ... ... ... 10 
Zebras (other than Mountain Zebra)... 2 
Gemsbuck or Beisa ... ... ... 2 
Sable or Roan ... ... ... ... 2 
Kudu 2 
Colobi and other Fur Monkeys ... 2 
Aard Varks 10 
Serval 2 
Cheetah 2 
Aard Wolf 2 
Smaller Monkeys of each species ... 2 
Ostrich (male only) ... ... ... 2 
Chevrotains ..-. ... ... ... 10 
