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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
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their best to preserve an adequate supply of game 
animals. Unfortunately, from our point of view, 
there are very many who, either because they 
are averse to the presence of game or because they 
lack the capital to develop their holdings, and so must 
live as best they can, will destroy every head of game 
that they can lay hands on. This large proportion 
may at any time cause the extinction of some lovely 
and harmless antelope. Again, there are at the 
present time certain animals, such as the eland and 
buffalo, which are under a taint of suspicion as bring¬ 
ing in their train tsetse-fly or other obnoxious parasites, 
and therefore are inimical to stock raising. Should 
this suspicion develop into certainty, these species must 
disappear from all distinct lands, and therefore, if they 
have no settled sanctuary two of the most glorious 
types of game animals will disappear from our midst. 
Further, we have here a virgin country, a country 
which has changed in no essential from time im¬ 
memorial, a country over which native and game 
alike have wandered happily and freely since the 
Flood. Granted that you could preserve intact 
representatives of every genus and species over the 
various farms and other artificial divisions into which 
the country is now being divided, you cannot preserve 
the natural conditions and type of country under and 
over which the game flourished. 5 ’ 
One may take it that it was such or similar argu¬ 
ments which led here, as in America, Canada, and 
South Africa, to the formation of Game Reserves. 
At the present moment in British East Africa there 
are in existence two large Reserves, one of which 
shelters the more southerly varieties of game found in 
the Protectorate and one the more northerly. 
