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porters' tents hatl been, and about these 

 hucklled the halt'-naked boys in the cool 

 of the early dawn, waiting for daylight 

 to appear that we might march on in 

 safety. As dawn broke, the unbounded 

 plains of the night before seemed like 

 another land; and our guide pointed to 

 a little blue hill topping the horizon to 

 the south and said, "Sisi kwenda huku ' 

 (We are going there.) 



When our day's march ended we had 

 covered about twenty miles and were 

 then camped at the only water hole in 

 the bottom of a dr\- river bed. Our 



Messrs. \. HmiI.IvIV.- I )iit,'iii.>ri- -.iiul .Imiih-^ I, ( hnk on llii; vvay lo Alrka 



tents were pitched some hundred ;yards 

 back, that we might not disturl) the 

 animals which were in the habit of 

 drinking at the hole in the night. 



Dugmore, after months of preparation 

 in New York and London, had assembled 

 a wonderful outfit of cameras and all 

 the necessary paraphernalia for develop- 

 ing and for making prints in. the field, 

 whether by running brook or muddy 

 water hole, and his success was due as 

 greatly to developing immediately and 

 knowing whether or not he had his pic- 

 tiu"e before he turned his attention to 

 other things, as it was to 

 his ability and technical 

 knowledge as a photog- 

 rapher. The advan- 

 tage of developing at 

 once while there is time 

 and opportunity to take 

 the picture again if 

 necessary, rather than 

 bringing the undevel- 

 oped plates home and 

 then developing, is man- 

 ifold. It insures against 

 loss through plates and 

 chemicals going bad un- 

 der unfavorable condi- 

 tions; against loss of 

 plates through the cam- 

 era having sprung a 

 leak unnoticed; against 

 wasted effort through 

 over or under exposure 

 and many other condi- 

 tions, any one of which 

 might make the result a 

 failure. 



We had brought with 

 IIS only such guns and 

 annnunition as seemed 

 necessary to insure our 

 safety, as it was not for 

 animal trophies we had 

 come l)ut for photo- 

 graphs. 



