FOREWORD 
the manuscript of the volume thoroughly, but 
after a quarter of a century acquaintance with 
the experiences, thoughts, and ideals of the author 
himself. This is the daybook, the diary, the narra- 
tive, the incident, and the adventure of an African 
sculptor and an African biographer, whose observa- 
tions we hope may be preserved in imperishable form, 
so that when the animal life of Africa has vanished, 
future generations may realize in some degree the 
beauty and grandeur which the world has lost. 
Sculptor and Biographer of the vanishing wild 
life of Africa—I do not feel that I can adequately and 
truthfully characterize Carl E. Akeley better than 
in these words. I have always maintained that he 
was a sculptor, that sculpture was his real vocation, 
in which taxidermy was an incidental element. The 
sculptor is a biographer and an historian. Without 
sculpture we should know far less of the vanished 
greatness of Greece than we do. Through sculpture 
Carl E. Akeley is recording the vanishing greatness 
of the natural world of Africa. We paleontologists 
alone realize that in Africa the remnants of all the 
royal families of the Age of Mammals are making 
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