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drinking and cooking; the second to 

 supply water for developing and print- 

 ing. For drinking purposes all water 

 had to be boiled ; for developing, it only 

 had to be reasonably clean. We con- 

 sidered ourselves fortunate if we could 

 camp b\- a running stream, but this was 

 only occasionally possible as our camps 

 were controlled by the presence of game 

 as well as of water. Many times we 

 saw abundance of game which Dugmore 

 wished to photograph, but as we could 

 not locate water in the vicinity we had 

 to move on. 



On several occasions we were obliged 

 to dig for water because we wanted to 

 be at a certain point of vantage from 

 which we could get to the herds of game. 

 This method was not always successful, 

 and where water could be had under 

 these conditions it was always scanty 

 and had to be used most sparingly. 

 Each night it was covered with branches 

 of thorn trees to protect it from the 

 animals which would otherwise have 

 come and exhausted the supply, for as a 

 rule it seeped in very slowly and could 

 be taken out only in small quantities at 

 a time. Under such conditions develop- 

 ing was out of the question and our 

 plates were allowed to accumulate until 

 camp could be moved to some stream, 

 where for a day or two we would make a 

 business of developing. 



Our first serious difficulty was the 

 frilling of the plates by the warm water. 

 Dugmore overcame this by filling buck- 

 ets with water the last thing in the even- 

 ing and allowing them to stand all night. 

 Then in the morning at about four 

 o'clock, the coolest time in the twenty- 

 four hours, we would develop the plates. 

 By daylight these plates would be drying 

 and by eight o'clock they would be so 

 dry that the heat that came with the 

 forenoon sun woidd not aft'ect them. 

 This arrangement also left us free at 



the proper time for taking pictures, 

 which is between nine and eleven o'clock 

 in the morning and between two and five 

 in the afternoon, when the light is good 

 and the animals are moving about feed- 

 ing. In the mifldle of the day, from 

 ele\en to two o'clock, the heat rays 

 dance so that a picture at a hundred 

 yards is almost impossible, and this 

 period of direct rays of the sun is so hot 

 that the animals take to shelter, resting 

 under trees and in strong shadow where 

 photographing is quite impossible. 



Dugmore was tireless, and would 

 obtain results where results were ap- 

 parently unobtainable. I have seen 

 him after being out all night in a boma, 

 return for lireakfast and immediately 

 thereafter start out for pictures, perhaps 

 to wait with patience all day long for 

 antelopes to feed slowly in his direction, 

 or to stalk with his heavy camera across 

 the hot barren plains. 



It was while he was working in a little 

 leaf concealment at noon one day not 

 far from camp, waiting for antelope to 

 appear, that he chanced to look behind 

 and saw two lions stalking him. His 

 first thought was a picture and he 

 reached for his camera, but the deliber- 

 ate stealthy progress of the two beasts 

 made him change the camera for his 

 gun. He broke the back of one and 

 knocked the other over, but this second 

 one finally got away. The first, power- 

 less to mo\e, was then photographed at 

 close range. 



Photographing lions proves most suc- 

 cessful if one can find a fresh kill and 

 construct a boma near it during the day, 

 being careful not to touch the kill or 

 to go near it. The lion — or leopard 

 perhaps — is almost certain to return 

 the following night. It was this method 

 which secured for Dugmore his lion 

 pictures taken at about thirty feet from 

 the animal. 



