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IN AFRICA 
can read the Chicago Tribune of August thirty- 
first. 
At present the chief revenue of the government 
is derived from shooting parties, and the officials 
are doing all they can to encourage the coming of 
sportsmen. Each man who comes to shoot must pay 
two hundred and fifty dollars for his license as 
well as employ at least thirty natives for his trans¬ 
port. He must buy supplies, pay ten per cent, 
import and export tax, and in many other ways 
spend money which goes toward paying the 
expenses of government. The government also 
is encouraging various agricultural and stock rais¬ 
ing experiments, but these have not yet passed the 
experimental stage. Almost anything may be 
grown in British East Africa, but before agricul¬ 
ture can be made to pay the vast herds of wild game 
must either be exterminated or driven away. No 
fence will keep out a herd of zebra, and in one rush 
a field of grain is ruined by these giant herds. Ex¬ 
periments have failed satisfactorily to domesticate 
the zebra, and so he remains a menace to agriculture 
and a nuisance in all respects except as adding a 
picturesque note to the landscape. 
Colonel Roosevelt, in a recent speech in Nairobi, 
spoke of British East Africa as a land of enormous 
possibilities and promise, but in talks with many 
men here I found that little money has been made 
by those who have gone into agriculture in a large 
way. Drought and predatory herds of game have 
introduced an element of uncertainty which has 
