ch. i] GAME RESERVES 11 
utmost comfort through a naturalist’s wonderland. All 
civilized Governments are now realizing that it is 
their duty here and there to preserve certain defined 
districts, with the wild things thereon, the destruction 
of which means the destruction of half the charm of 
wild nature. The English Government has made a 
large game reserve of much of the region on the way 
to Nairobi, stretching far to the south, and one mile 
to the north, of the track. The reserve swarms with 
game; it would be of little value except as a reserve; 
and the attraction it now offers to travellers renders it 
an asset of real consequence to the whole colony. 
The wise people of Maine, in our own country, have 
discovered that intelligent game preservation, carried 
out in good faith, and in a spirit of common sense as 
far removed from mushy sentimentality as from 
brutality, results in adding one more to the State’s 
natural resources of value ; and in consequence there 
are more moose and deer in Maine to-day than there 
were forty years ago. There is a better chance for every 
man in Maine, rich or poor, provided that he is not a 
game butcher, to enjoy his share of good hunting; and 
the number of sportsmen and tourists attracted to the 
State adds very appreciably to the means of livelihood 
of the citizen. Game reserves should not be established 
where they are detrimental to the interests of large 
bodies of settlers, nor yet should they be nominally 
established in regions so remote that the only men really 
interfered with are those who respect the law, while a 
premium is thereby put on the activity of the un¬ 
scrupulous persons who are eager to break it. Similarly, 
game laws should be drawn primarily in the interest of 
the whole people, keeping steadily in mind certain facts 
that ought to be self-evident to everyone above the 
