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On the contrary, sight-seers, naturalists, and men of 
science should, and no doubt will, be encouraged. As 
the country gets more and more settled up and the 
game moves back into the unhealthy and barren areas, 
one conceives that bungalows or rest-houses will be 
erected at suitable places in the Reserve. Visitors 
and scientific expeditions will hire the same, and, armed 
with the camera, will still enjoy the sport of the pioneer. 
Possibly, also, specimens will be captured to supply 
periodically both zoological gardens and museums. A 
considerable source of revenue will by these means be 
added to the Protectorate. 
Rather a vexed question is raised by the carnivora 
in the Reserve, and more especially by the lions. 
Some settlers would have all carnivora destroyed, 
others would have them kept in check, and others, again, 
would have them entirely preserved. Personally, I 
would put in a strong plea for the lion, at all events 
within certain limits. Not only is he, to my mind, the 
grandest beast in Africa, but his habits are intensely 
interesting, and unless provoked it is the very rarest 
thing, if not absolutely unknown, for him to molest 
human beings. In the whole history of the Protector¬ 
ate there may be authentic cases of a dozen man- 
eaters ; and many of these, no doubt, had been at 
some previous date molested or wounded. If, how¬ 
ever, it be held necessary from time to time to reduce 
the number of lions, it is a task that should be entrusted 
solely to the officers in charge of the Reserve. On no 
account should privileged persons be allowed, as has 
occurred too often in the past, to enter the sanctuary 
ostensibly to kill superfluous lions. I would go further, 
and say that the only method by which carnivora should 
be killed therein is by the unsporting but most deadly 
