Mr F C Sclous, the famous hunter, reid a paper on "Big Game m South Africa," at tho monthly dinner of tho African Societj recently Contrary to general expectation, taid Mr Selous, neithw elephants nor giraffes were by any means yet extinct in that portion of Africa to tho south of tho Zambosi Ho could not taheve that thero could be less than two thousand elephants shvo to tho south of tho Zambesi River, and there might bo a great many more ever tho buffalo had ceased to exist tse-tse flies, however plentiful at one timo, sooner or later became extinct, ovon although other kinds of gamo remained in the country. The tse-tso fly did not long without access to the blood of buifakxa-
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 4
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