Show WASTE OF ammal LIFE the introduction of firearms and coi specially pec lally ally of 0 breech loading firearms 0 and the rapid opening up of one great I 1 I 1 huitink ground after another have lw wrought rought within these last sixty years such incredible havoc that great game I 1 are now rapidly approaching a period of extinction men begin to wonder I 1 what their descendants of the next nest century will have left them in the way iray F of sport it Is quite certain that even the remoter remoler corners of the world cannot much longer support thi the incessant waste of animal life and it may be not unprofitable here to consider briefly I 1 the sad tale of a vanishing fauna and 1 i the ways end means by which it it Is TI at already too late something may tl ho 0 done to preserve the rarer and no ibler bler b cro atutes still lett left to the nilder milder r rp gm north america has been almost destroyed d as a game country the ids bison on h has gone the wapiti the moose tile the j J caribou and the bear are going fast 4 of south africa a country more j gally gaily endowed by nature than any 11 other part of the world the same misu erable tale has to be told only in portions of veldt of mashon aland the regions ot of the river 4 i and the least accessible deserts of t f north land and the kalahari kalahati Kal ahari are there to be found fair re representatives tai of that astounding bounding toun ding fauna holcli riot not long since gave unspeakable C harin charm to plain and mountain and moot fiant the southern shores of the ile I 1 cape colony right away to the tar far Zam best and even in those distant and dilli cult wilds their numbers are dally daily and hourly diminishing so that apparently in a few more years tile the great game of all southern africa will be but a memory in india the same war of extermination has been n and Is incessantly waged arid and with the tame bame results the indian lion the gloat mailed rhin ocer on as the guar buffalo boar bear even the tiger itself and many other oilier 11 decies of great game are vanishing rapidly in other countries the ihl jame ame process la Is going busily forward ELL al the hands of at white while and native hunters with apparently the same inevitable erding ending complete extermination n not until the european began to move la abroad avid and firearms came into use s C was there any ble decline arno among ng the mammilla mam marn malla malia of america africa or even india in the days of matchlocks match locks I 1 and evert even a of flint guns guis and smooth bores the destruction proceeded of course much more slowly than at present but with the introduction of percussion caa a great change came quickly in the animal bill of slaughter improvements lit in und and precision rapidly followed and nally finally came caine the modern br breechloader breech ech loader to complete the work of destruction it la is now unless yomi some effectual method of preservation can be quickly introduced absolutely certain that the complete extermination of the great game of africa america and asia Is merely a question of years and in southern africa especially period of extinction la Is very close at hand band tile Q aga has vanished the milte rhinoceros hia hall been all but shot to extinction the giraffe the elephant hant the black rhinoceros the hippopotamus burchelle Burc hells bebr and most of the great antelopes are are fast disappearing I H 1 A dryden in athe the fortnightly deview tor for october |