This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...that under the Pax Britannica the savage races--decimated a dozen years ago--are recovering their former numbers with abnormal rapidity. They promise soon far to exceed them. They are no longer liable to slave-raids which swept them off in ship-loads; nor is internecine tribal warfare permitted. There survive neither ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...that under the Pax Britannica the savage races--decimated a dozen years ago--are recovering their former numbers with abnormal rapidity. They promise soon far to exceed them. They are no longer liable to slave-raids which swept them off in ship-loads; nor is internecine tribal warfare permitted. There survive neither Mahdis nor Kaliphas to massacre them by the million. Disease is by way of being checked, and so, in time, will the risk of recurring famine be reduced. Each and all these benefits they owe to British rule. There will be nothing unreasonable if, in due time, we require a measure of reciprocity and part-payment of the debt by insisting on the savages treating the game (as they are treated themselves) with consideration--not to say with mercy. Game-laws, we know, have appeared to some tubthumpers a sort of Anathema Maranatha in the past. That, however, was when horizons were limited by the immaterial fact that, in our bits of islands, there was neither game enough nor ground enough to "go round." But game-laws, when all is said and done, have always been a first footstep towards progress in savage lands; and will outlast all prejudice in the civilised. For game are God's creatures and (subject to rational control and to the prior rights of mankind) have an inherent and indefeasible right to live. A Note On Game-preservation A deadly danger to game---perhaps the deadliest of any (since the implication is subtle)--is to admit any sort of confusion between the terms Game and "Meat." Once allow these to become synonymous, once allow the practice (for some paltry economy) of feeding native troops on "meat"--meaning Game--and the deathwarrant of that game is signed for ever. Consider what such a practice involves. Squads of...
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