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THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN GAME 183
DISTRIBUTION AND PREVALENCE OF THE LION IN AFRICA
Exterminated in the last Century
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MAP SHOWING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE LION
Incidentally, it is also an Index of the Disappearance of African Big Game Generally. From an Article in the Review of Reviews, for August. 1912, by Cyrus C. Adams, and Based Largely upon the E.xhaustive Studies of Dr. C. M. Engel, of Copenhagen.
teeming with white population. Giraffes and rhinoceroses now are tramplingoverthesitesofthecitiesanduniversitiesofthefuture. Then the herds of grand game that now make Africa a sportsman's wonderland will exist only in closed territory, in books, and in memory.
From what has befallen in South Africa, we can easily and correctly forecast the future of the big game of British East Africa and Uganda. Less than fifty years ago. Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand, and every
