• This more or less new accessibility, coupled with the
advertisement of the country given by the journey of the Prince of •Wales, may bring on a crisis, frequently threatened. The Prince has done untold good by emphasizing the claims of the camera as compared with the gun. Photography of wild animals has an excitement and entails difficulties unknown to the sportsman with the rifle. Nevertheless the world is full of people who desire to kill, without running risk or taking trouble. They journey in motor cars into the haunts of wild beasts, and, armed with the newest rifles, may kill or maim within a day more animals than the old sportsman could approach within six weeks. There are, of course, laws and regulations, but they are not altogether easy to administer. The danger comes not from the true sportsman. Indeed, the movement for protection springs largely from the protests of men who are born hunters, just as in New- foundland the cry, for protection of the Caribou came from such "happy sportsmen" and artists as Millais and Selous. Greater strictness in issuing permits and more keepers, in the true sense of that word, seems to be the best line of defence.
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