W^ith I'lashlight and Ritic ^ 



then the great desire arose in me in some manner or other 

 to seize on all these wonderful phenomena from the animal 

 workl, and to make them common propertx and accessible 

 to all. This desire orrew in me side bv side with the 

 conviction that there was here a wide field for valuable 

 work to be accomplished without delay ; ior the East 

 African fauna was rapidly disappearing" before the continued 



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advance; of civilisation. lUit good adxice was hard to 

 get. The facultv ot depicting the; animal world with 

 the artist's pencil was denied me ; 1 ])ossessed, oiiK- in a 

 small measure, the abilitv to tk'scribe in tolerable clearnt;ss 

 this beautitul, \irgin, prime\al world. .Since the (la\"s 

 when the untorlunate Richard kxihin was seized wah a 

 malignant lever on llie tar I'pemb.i Lake in 1SS4, ami 



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