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considerably lessened. This female had a baby 
which was hustled off by the rest of the band. The 
baby was crying piteously as it went. 
This, added to the specimens on hand, brought the 
material for the group to one old male, two females, 
and a young male of about four years of age. 
That night as I came into camp my mind went 
back to a certain day eleven years before when I was 
hunting lions on the Uasin Gishu Plateau with a 
-moving-picture camera. A most wonderful opportu- 
nity had then been given me. Full in front of me the 
native hunters had drawn a lion’s charge and killed 
the lion with their spears. But the opportunity had 
been as short-lived as it was magnificent, and the kind 
of camera I had then could not be handled that 
quickly. As I walked back to camp that night, I 
was determined to make a naturalist’s moving-picture 
camera that would prevent my missing such a chance 
if ever such a one came my way again. From IgIo0 
to 1916 I worked on this camera whenever I had a 
minute to spare. By i917 I had the pleasure of 
knowing that it was used on observation planes des- 
tined for the battlefields of France. I had myself 
never had a chance to try my invention, except ex- 
perimentally, until this trip to Africa. On this expe- 
dition I had brought two—a large one for panorama 
work and a smaller one nicknamed “the Gorilla”’ for 
animal work. ‘The Gorilla” had taken 300 feet of 
film of the animal that had heretofore never been 
taken alive in its native wilds by any camera, still or 
moving. Few things have given me greater satisfac- 
