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were utilised as food ; but most of 
them were killed merely for the sake 
of the trophies which their antlers 
afforded. This regrettable case, I am 
sorry to say, is not the only one of its 
kind. Hence it is that the Spitzbergen 
reindeer is gradually disappearing ; 
and this is the more to be de- 
plored as it is a peculiar variety of 
the animal {Cervus tarandus van 
spitzbergensis). 
The African fauna, too, is rapidly 
diminishing before the unrestrained 
attacks of man. Sir H. H. Johnston 
and Professor C. G. Schillings are 
quite right in raising a protest against 
the idea that the destruction of 
the animal world is part of a fash- 
ionable man s education, and against 
the enormous damage done by ob- 
scure sportsmen \ 
1 Schillings, C. G. With Flashlight and Rifle. 
Translated by F. Whyte. With an introduction 
c. 
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