Related article: public money, and sorrowfully refused the outlay. The authorities then found themselves confronted with the inevitable question : — Shall we sacrifice these planters, payers of taxes, employers of labour, pioneers of civilisation and commerce, or must we sacri- fice our cherished hippopotami, the last living relics o\ the times that have been ? There could be but one answer, and early in 1898 the herd was exterminated. The Cyclogyl 1 sad case of the Natal hippos shows the difficulty of developing a new country and of preserving its distinctive fauna at one and the same time. The latter must give way, and the only feasible method of contenting the claims of zoology is by maintain- ing representatives of the species in large captivity. How long a sp)ecies like the hippo or rhinoceros might endure under such condi- tions it is hard to suggest : the numbers must necessarily be re- stricted, and we know that when a species is reduced below a cer- tain numerical strength extinction follows in obedience to the work- ings of a natural law. Neverthe- less the evil day may be postponed by the timely establishment of game parks, reserves or sanctu- aries, as you please to call them, on a large scale in judiciously chosen districts. That the areas for reservation must be selected with peculiar care will be apparent from the number and variety of species it may be considered de- sirable to protect. This is the list of game included in Schedule II. of the British Central African Game Regulations ; the first four species may be shot only by the holder of the £1^ licence ; for the others a £}, licence only is required. Elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, gnu or wildebeest, zebra, wart-hog, bush -pig and buflfdlo ; antelope : — eland, koodoo, sita- tunga, inyala, bush-buck, duiker, oribi, Sharpe*s antelope, kleipspringer, reed buck, pookoo, Senga pookoo, lech we, Craw- shay's cobu*, waterbuck, impila, harte- beesi, tscuc!>e, sable and roan antelope. Major Gibbon's scheme, con- templating a fenced park, did not touch such heavy game as ele- phant, rhino and buffalo ; his list of antelope numbered thirty-one species, including all of those in the foregoing list which are found south of the Zambesi. Assuming, therefore, that a re- serve in any part of the Continent Cyclogyl Price must provide suitable quarters for between twenty and thirty species of game, many of them differing widely from others in their way of life and choice of habitat, it will be admitted that the ideal tract required as a sanctuary is not to be found everywhere. It must embrace every variety of country from stone kopje to marsh-land ; meadow, bush, park, heavy jungle and hill and vale. The essentials are only to be found by chance within an area of reasonable dimansions, and where found must be appropriated at once with the natural stock of game. The de- marcation of such proclaimed reserves would be a simple matter so far as law-abiding European sportsmen are concerned : small boundary pillars placed at inter- vals would suffice to warn these, but the enterprise of less reputable white hunters and natives Cyclogyl Eye Drops could only be checked by the attach- ment of a staff of native boundary riders whose business would be to keep trespassers out and game, as far as might be, in. Where the chosen sanctuary were furnished with natural boundaries in the shape of streams — Buy Cyclogyl like ** the Ele- phant Marsh " in British Central Africa, which lies in the fork of 268 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [Ap|riL Shire and its confluent the Ruo river — the work of guarding the game would be immensely simpli- fied. In less favoured sanctuaries it might be found advantageous to create all round the reserve proper a ** neutral belt '* of per- haps three miles in width, whereon neither shooting nor cultivation should be permitted. In the absence of fencing, which is impossible on the score of expense, and not wholly desirable as calcu- lated to keep out welcome refugees from persecution, this neutral zone would serve a valuable purpose in keeping zoological and agricul- tural interests literally apart. It will be many generations ere the value of land in regions where game is now plentiful reaches a level which would render the liberal allotment of lands for this purpose a matter for consideration from the economic standpoint, and it would be well to establish the Reserves while the needful space may be had for the taking. What the International Confer- ence would have to do were the Reserve system adopted is to agree concerning the species to be preserved in various localities, and to agree that any Reserve, by whatever Power created, is to be respected by the subjects of all. That the Game Park system answers its purpose of preserving from extinction animals that would otherwise have perished from the face of the earth, we have abun- dant proof in the United States. In the Yellowstone Park, Wyom- ing, we have a splendid example of the game preserve on a gigantic scale. True, the administration of the Park is not perfect, and every Fall sees poachers at work among the bison still to be found there ; but as a game reserve, the tract so wisely set aside by the States Legislature is admirably chosen, affording lands of every description required by the ani- mals inhabiting it. In a valley in Western Montana, the late Mr. Charles Allard, in 1879, located a herd of bison, now said to number 250 individuals, and, therefore, the largest in existence. This herd serves our purpose as' an illustration of the comparatively restricted unfenced park. The spot was evidently well selected, for the herd has now been in existence for twenty years, and there appears to be no difficulty in keeping the bison within the desired limits. In New Hamp- shire, Mr. Austin Corbin, some years ago, established a park of 26,000 acres, which he fenced with barbed wire, and stocked with bison, moose, and other game. This park has been in existence, we believe, for some ten years, and in this area — small by comparison with the tracts desirable for preservation in Africa — the several species con- fined breed freely and thrive. If it were possible to achieve the end desired by regulations limiting the number of head any traveller or sportsman might kill in a specified time, that unques- tionably would be the simplest method of saving the threatened species of African game from extermination ; but he were san- guine who believed that fear of fine would stay pressure of finger on trigger when a good trophy offered, or when followers clam-