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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
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consists in matching the intelligence and knowledge 
of the hunter against the instinct and cunning of the 
quarry. No very great quantity of elephants are 
killed nowadays in the Protectorate—in 1910 and 1911 
it was forty-six—but nearly all these are old bulls. 
Indeed the real veterans are by now mainly extermin¬ 
ated, and hunters are turning their attention to the 
breeding bulls. It is as hard to-day to get a 70 lb. 
tusker as three or four years back it was to get a 
hundred pounder. In view of the huge herds of 
cows which exist, it is a question whether, instead of 
the second bull, two cows might not be placed on the 
licence. 
In addition to those animals killed and accounted 
for on licence, the elephant has the following 
enemies to contend with in the Protectorate. The 
Wandorobo and Wakamba hunter kill a small 
and decreasing number yearly; Somalis kill all that 
they can in the neighbourhood of the Lorian swamp; 
Abyssinian hunters from over the border make 
periodical and at times very destructive raids into our 
territory. Indian traders are always ready to buy 
undersized bull and cow ivory and to ask no ques¬ 
tions. It is satisfactory to know that on all these de¬ 
predations the Game Department is keeping a vigilant 
eye. 
Herds of elephant are found in the following 
localities among others—it being borne in mind that 
they are by nature very migratory : The Mau forest, 
Kenia forest, the Aberdares and especially round 
Thompsons Falls, Lake Marsabit and its neighbour¬ 
hood, where there are hundreds of cows, but very few 
bulls ; Mohoroni and Kisii, where the cows are apt to 
charge at sight; the lower waters of the Tana and all 
