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antelopes and other game, and with far less trouble 
than domesticated animals give, until the white man 
with guns destroyed them. We are too apt to forget 
that England owes the best of her trees, vegetables, 
and animals to other countries. All are now so good 
that we are prone to believe that neither can be added 
to or improved. Perhaps Admiral Rous was right 
when he declared that it made him “ simply sick ” 
when an Arab cross was proposed for our English 
thoroughbreds. But why should we not save the 
eland, the harness antelope, and the koodoo, and other 
large African species from extermination ? America 
has almost allowed the bison to perish. Shall we not 
take warning, and preserve for our own use the 
splendid African antelopes, which, within the memory 
of man, were a thousand times more numerous than 
they are to-day ? 
