Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-east Africa

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Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-east Africa: An Account of Shooting Trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza Divisions of Portuguese South-east Africa and in Zululand

Frederick Roderick Noble Findlay

Published: T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1903

With chapters by Olive Schreiner and S.C. Cronwright Schreiner, A Map and Numerous Illustrations

Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY page 545: A book on sport in South-East Africa at the commencement of the twentieth century. The author, a nephew of Olive Schreiner, was evidently an ardent hunter, and speaks, of Portuguese South-East Africa as "a veritable sportsman's paradise. "There is an important chapter on " The Fauna of Africa: Conservation or Extermination," the first part of which, entitled "Waste Land in Mashonaland," is contributed by Olive Schreiner, while Part II. is written by the author. The former greatly deprecates “the reckless and entirely wanton destruction of the one form of production for which the African continent stands pre-eminent among the world's divisions of our astonishing fauna." She advocates the formation of " a vast preserve for wild animals where all creatures but those habituated to extreme cold would freely exist in a state of nature: this would serve as a means of keeping in existence a large number of forms of animal life which would else become annihilated.' It is suggested that, in connection with this scheme, a large zoological garden could be formed "in the narrower sense of the term, where isolated specimens might be immured for the purposes of certain studies." It is stated that an ideal part of the continent for such a project could be chosen in Mashonaland” " the scheme would have to be worked on a colossal scale, and by the international interaction of all interested in science our preserve should be the World's Zoological Garden." Mr. Findlay, in continuing the paper, considered that Pretoria would be the best place for the zoological garden, while the preserve could be established in the north-west portion of the Transvaal. The greater part of the volume is devoted to an account of the writer's hunting experiences in South Africa, and it would be difficult to find a more useful or up-to-date book on the subject. It is profusely illustrated, and contains some valuable appendices, amongst which is “The Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds, and Fish in Africa," signed in London, May 19 1900.

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