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The next best method is to shoot a 

 zebra, which is the Hon's favorite food, 

 and drag it some (Ustance over the 

 ground; then to buiUl a boma or get up 

 into a near-by tree in a constructed 

 crow's nest. The latter is safer but not 

 so satisfactory, for the darker the night 



prepared kill stalks it and does not make 

 the slightest sound; therefore to have 

 knowledge of his presence is a protection 

 as well as an advantage photographically. 

 Other methods used for photographing 

 game were impro^•ised on the spot as the 

 conditions demanded. For hours at a 



Photo by A. Radclyffe Dugniore 

 The harlebeesi is the most coininoa animal in Brilish East Africa, found in herds of one to three hundred, and 

 used extensively for food. An interesting peculiarity of this beast is that it assumes the duty of sentinel, not only 

 for its own kind but also for all the other animals, often risking its life to warn game that is being stalked — and 

 standing for hours perhaps on the open plain watching a photographer's blind. It is a true antelope, very swift, 

 and lias a large range 



the more likely the lions are to come and 

 nothing can be seen looking down to- 

 ward the Ijlack ground from the tree; 

 whereas looking upward from a boma on 

 sloping ground the lion will be seen 

 against the sky line, visible on even the 

 darkest night. A lion coming to a 



time we might lie in the grass or in holes 

 we had dug in the ground or sit up in 

 trees or in little shelters constructed of 

 boughs, while ant hills were very useful 

 as screens. 



At one time I shot and skinned a 

 hartebeest, the most common of African 



