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WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



eyes decide to let their most grand and beautiful game 

 species be exterminated in a brief period, the curses of 

 posterity will be theirs, and the blame will not be ours. 



THE ZULULAND MASSACRE OF GAME. 



The news of the great game slaughter in Zululand 

 (Natal), in 1920, severely jarred the wild life conserva- 

 tionists of the world. The event was an open and above- 

 board organized massacre, which involved the immediate 

 slaughter of a great mass of zebras and other large game, 

 including six white rhinoceroses out of the existing thirty 

 still found south of the equator. This was executed with 

 great cruelty, as a number of the men employed were 

 inexperienced as hunters, with the result that innumerable 

 of these magnificent animals were fired upon at any dis- 

 tance and wounded in such a manner that they died a 

 lingering and painful death. The explanation given for 

 this slaughter was to attempt to put a stop to the dam- 

 age done by the tse-tse fly amongst the cattle. However, 

 the great majority of the men who took part in this drive 

 hunt came from the towns and villages, and had not the 

 slightest interest in the cattle or in farming in the dis- 

 trict. Their only object was to kill everything which 

 came before them. Apart from this it looks doubtful 

 whether such wholesale butchery of game can be of any 

 practical use. So much is certain. The tse-tse fly is still 

 found there to-day, as it was before the drive, and it is 

 highly probable that the scattering of the game carried 

 the fly to localities where before it has not been found. 



PRESERVATION AND SLAUGHTER OF GAME ON 

 SOUTH AFRICAN FARMS. 



Throughout the past twenty years it has been well 

 known to American and British zoologists and sportsmen 

 that many of the Boer farmers of South Africa were 

 zealously and successfully preserving on their farms many 



