2.20 IN BRIGHTEST AFRICA 
precious anatomical record for sculptural and taxi- 
dermic use. 
The gun boys and guides came the following 
morning and said they were going home. It took 
an hour, money, and many promises to make them 
change their minds. Heaven knows I did not blame 
them. I would not do what they had done for 
money. 
However, I did not start again. Although I had 
worked one whole day on the last two gorillas I had 
some things still to do and I felt that with enough 
material on hand for a good group even if I got no 
more I could go a bit easier. So I stayed in camp 
another day and planned a gorilla hunt for the moving- 
picture camera. On the side hills where we had been 
hunting there was no possible hope of using a camera 
so I told the boys if they took me in any such places 
again I would annihilate them. Not only would it 
be useless for the camera but I felt that I couldn’t 
stand another such trip myself. So they promised 
me an easier route, and equipped with photographic 
outfit we started off in the direction of the Saddle 
between Mikeno and Karisimbi. It seemed a very 
stiff climb to me in the beginning, but I have learned 
since that it was chiefly because of my extreme weak- 
ness. Before I had been out an hour I was sorely 
tempted to return to camp and give it up; but we 
came upon a fresh trail of a band of gorillas which 
for some reason or other the guides followed only a 
short distance, continuing on in the same general 
direction in which we had started, without any en- 
