INVENTIONS AND WARFARE 173 
Since the war, with the intermission of my trip 
to Africa for gorillas in 1921, I have stuck to my 
sculpture and taxidermy except for various lecture 
trips. 
A man who is fortunate enough to have witnessed 
the beauties of the African forests and who has come 
to know the forest’s inhabitants and their ways, is 
almost sure to be called upon to share his good for- 
tune with others, and I have done a good deal of 
lecturing. My first lectures were to be given at Ful- 
lerton Hall in Chicago for the Field Museum shortly 
after my return from Africa in1go6. Fortunately, I 
had occasion to deliver a lecture in South Chicago 
a few days before my first museum lecture was sched- 
uled. Otherwise, I probably would have dropped 
dead when I faced the Fullerton Hall audience. I 
think the thing that saved me from running then 
was the fact that I had a small audience behind a 
screen at the rear of the platform and knew that it 
blocked my escape. 
I had tried to prepare a lecture, had realized that 
that was impossible, and had finally decided to show 
my audience the pictures and make whatever com- 
ments they brought to mind. Then, when I got on 
the platform without the vaguest idea of what I was 
going to say first, it suddenly occurred to me that I 
was no worse frightened than I had been one day on 
the banks of the Tana when I suddenly found myself, 
with nothing but a camera in my hand, charged 
by a rhinoceros. Apparently I had no escape except 
a thirty-foot drop into the crocodile-infested waters 
