Men (and women too) with heavy firearms standing in their cupboards and with portions of dead creatures affixed to the walls of their "dens" in lifelike poses, rejoiced last week at a report which came out of Africa via London. It was the first official report of a Captain Pitman, since 1925 game warden of Uganda, the portion of British East Africa lying inland from Kenya Colony and Tanganyika.
Captain Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman lamented the slaughter that has been wrought on gorillas, of which he estimated there were...
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