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GAME RESERVES 
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method of all, poison. Except for the actual purpose 
of self-defence, the rifle should be unknown in a game 
reserve. It is a matter of intense gratification to all 
settlers that we have in the person of the chief game- 
ranger, Mr. Woosnam, and of his second in command, 
Mr. Percival, who is more especially responsible for the 
Northern Game Reserve, two such eminently conscien¬ 
tious and unbiassed officials. Both are first-class sports¬ 
men and well-known naturalists ; men, moreover, who, 
though “ loving the big game like a brother,” do so in 
no fanatic spirit, but rather with a just and reasonable 
appreciation of the additional interests of the human 
population, both white and black. 
