XXXI 
GAME RESERVES 
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The Northern Game Reserve occupies some 14,000 
miles, consisting mostly of desert country, and is at 
present beyond the furthest limits of colonisation. The 
southern boundary of this large tract is the north 
Guaso Nyiro river, and the sanctuary forms a square 
block to the north of this line artificially bounded on 
the other three sides. Although, as I have said, the 
area comprised is mostly arid and sandy, certain 
Through the Reserve. 
(By permission of the Manager of the Uganda Railway.') 
portions are probably fitted for white settlement, and 
in the course of time its area is likely to be curtailed. 
There is no great variety, or indeed number, of 
animals in the Northern Reserve; shortage and 
poverty of grazing are responsible for that ; but of the 
species included some, at all events, are not found in 
the Southern Reserve. Among its inmates are 
elephant, of which there are undoubtedly several 
thousand, rhinoceros, buffalo, giraffe ( reticulata ), 
