REPRODUCTION OF AFRICAN 

 PHOTOGRAPHS 



By CARL E. AKELEY 



The fifteen hundred photographs brought back to America by Mr. Akeley, many of them 



the most remarkable elephant photographs ever taken, represent one of the minor 



results of the last of his three expeditions to Africa. These photographs 



furnish indispensable, authentic data for the preparation of the 



groups in the proposed African hall of the American 



Museum of Natural History 



A CAMP OF ELEPHANT HUNTERS ON MOUNT ELGON 



A clearing in the bamboo forest, at ten thousand feet elevation. Slender bamboos tower 



overhead and trees are festooned with gray moss. Here and there in the heart 



of the forest are small open spaces, so devoid of trees as to seem like 



artificial clearings, and the air, although cold elsewhere, is pleasant 



in these little open glades. Here the ground is clean, and 



heavily carpeted with dry bamboo leaves. There 



are many old elephant pits in these bamboo 



forests, made by the natives when 



elephants were plentiful 



on Elgon 



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