THE EXTERMINATION OF SOUTH 

 AFRICA'S FINEST GAME 



A WARNING FROM FRIENDS ACROSS THE SEA 

 By William T. Hornaday. 



Honorary Member of the British Society for the Preservation of the Fauna 

 of the Empire; Trustee Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund of America. 



IF our advices are correct, as we believe them to be, 

 one of the after-effects in South Africa of the German 

 War is a decided falling off in the business of wild life 

 protection. The spirit of game conservation that existed 

 in that country previous to the war, and was reflected 

 annually in the reports of many game protecting organi- 

 zations, seems to have grown lukewarm. 



The wild life defenders of New York and London have 

 received from South Africa many reports and expres- 

 sions of regret and alarm concerning recent killings of 

 big game. Some of these reports have caused American 

 zoologists and sportsmen grave concern. Under the cir- 

 cumstances it seems to be our duty to send to the people 

 of South Africa a solemn warning against making the 

 mistakes in game slaughter that in the past have been 

 made in America, and which now are permanent sources 

 of regret and shame. 



The awful deadliness of modern firearms, the fatal 

 facilities in game pursuit that the deadly automobile now 

 affords, and the wicked and savage heedlessness of man 

 toward the rights of wild game and our own posterity, 

 are causes for profound alarm. At all hazards we will 

 sound, in Africa, this warning note; and then if the 

 people of South Africa deliberately and with wide open 



