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brother Boer must be excepted ; for, save in the 
rarest instances, he will first clear his farm of every 
living thing and then proceed, if possible, to repeat 
the process on that of his neighbour. There are also 
likely, in suitable situations, to be private game 
reserves with shooting lodges built on them which may 
be hired and where sport as sport is likely for very 
many years to come to be as good as it was even in 
the earliest days. Such spots will, of course, be rare 
and only on such areas where the method forms the 
most profitable means of utilising the ground. At 
present there exist at least two such Reserves, and the 
number is likely to be augmented in the near future. 
Then there are the native Reserves, but from them I 
venture to think that we cannot expect much. There 
used to be a pleasing theory that game would always 
be thick in the Masai Reserves because this tribe are 
not hunters of game. It is perfectly true that the 
Masai do not hunt game for food ; they have but one 
thought and that is cattle and sheep, but as surely as the 
game interfere with the grazing for their enormous 
herds of cattle and sheep, so surely will the game be 
banished. To this fact anyone who has trekked 
across Likipia of late years can bear eloquent testi¬ 
mony. There are also the Forest Reserves and 
areas, and here there is great hope of sport for many 
generations. The forests are full of splendid game : 
elephant, rhino, buffalo, bongo, bushbuck, leopards, 
the giant hog and other pigs ; this game does good rather 
than harm in that it eats the grass and other under¬ 
growth and considerably lessens the danger of forest 
fires; its enemies in the shape of hunting tribes 
should be easily kept in check, and finally hunting 
and shooting in bush and forest is probably finer sport 
