Excerpt from Big Game Shooting, Vol. 1
It rather seems as if we were coming just now to something like a parting of the ways in the history of the Big Game of the world. For many years, ever since the introduction of efficient firearms, man has been shooting beast to such an extent that it seemed likely that the future author who took up his pen to write about Big Game would be able to dispose of them as briefly as the scribe of the famous chapter on snakes in Iceland. Thanks, however, to an appreciation of the imminent risk of this extinction, and partly to some very striking object lessons, such as the extermination in the unprotected state of the American bison, more or less stringent game laws, more or less thoroughly enforced, are now the rule rather than the exception over the greater part of the globe.
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