This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xvi Sport in Somaliland--Full details in "Seventeen Trips"--Provisions of the International Agreement for preservation of big game in Africa--Beneficial to sportsmen--Somali Protectorate regulations--Remarks on same--Proposed alterations--Greater and lesser kudu--Lion-shooting in Somaliland--The Somali's way of regarding depredations of lions--Plea for lions and appeal for their preservation--Disease amongst greater kudu. there have been so many books published about shooting in Somaliland that it would be quite superfluous to attempt to write anything new on this subject. In the Appendices to "Seventeen Trips" will be found all information necessary as to the fitting out of a caravan, its cost, &c, also hints as to clothing, equipment, stores, and rifles. I have therefore no wish to touch on any of these matters, but merely desire to point out for the benefit of any one intending to visit Somaliland, that the conditions under which In Pursuit of the "Mad" Mullah shooting parties are now allowed to proceed into the country have been somewhat modified, owing to the provisions of the International Agreement for the protection of big game in Africa, which was signed in London in 1900. Every British Protectorate in Africa now has its own Game Laws and Regulations and game Reserves. The principles on which the regulations are framed are the same for all Protectorates, namely, to frame rules which will stop the wholesale slaughter of game which has been going on in Africa for many years past, and to form reserves in which no shooting at all is allowed, so as to afford a sanctuary, as it is called in Scotland, for all species. The details vary in different countries, according to local conditions and the distribution of particular...

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