List of Illustrations 



Hungry Vultures . . . -578 



Pitching Camp 579 



My Taxidermist at Work . . .581 

 Termite Ant-hills .... 583 

 An unusually large Ant-hill . . 587 

 Prince Lowenstein .... 589 

 Destroying an Ant-hill with Pick and 



Shovel ...... 590 



Serving out Provisions . . . 592 

 Bearer's Wife preparing a Meal . . 592 

 Young Baboons in front of my Tent . 593 

 Young Ostriches .... 593 



Marabou Nests .... 595, 598 



Feathered members of my Camp . 599 

 A rather Mixed-up Photograph . . 601 

 My Rhinoceros : in the Berlin " Zoo " 



and on the Yelt . . . 606, 607 

 How my captive " Rhino " was 



Carried to Camp . . . .612 

 Carrying a Dead Leopard . . .612 

 My ' Rhino" and her Two Companions 61 3 

 A Young Hyena extracted from its Lair 613 

 Vultures : 



On the Wing . . . .618 

 Hoveling over a Carcase . .619 

 Moving away from a Carcase . 621 



My Pelicans 623 



A Siesta in Camp .... 625 

 A Strange Friendship . . . 628 



"Fatima"' Prowling Round . . 629 

 Carrying a fine Leopard . . -631 

 Killing Came in accordance with 



Mohammedan rites .... 633 

 Cutting up the Carcase . . . 633 

 A Trapped Leopard .... 635 

 The Baboon and the Little Black Lady 636 

 Moonlight on the Veil . facing 636 

 A Fowl of the Veil .... 637 

 A River-horse Resort .... 639 

 One of the Peaks of Donje-Erok . 641 

 Drawing Water for the March . . 643 

 Vultures ...... 645 



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Flashlight Photographs . . 648, 649 

 My Night-apparatus in position . . 653 

 A Pet of the Caravan .... 654 



A Baobab-tree 655 



Flashlight Photograph of a Mongoose 657 

 Apparatus for Night Photography 660,661 

 Vultures contesting the Possession of 

 Carrion . 



First Dry-plate Photograph, probably, 



665 

 667 



ever taken in the African Desert 

 Photographic Mishaps: 



Cracked Glass Plate . . . 669 

 Plate Exposed Twice . . . 673 

 Telephotograph of Ostriches . . 677 

 Photographs of Birds taken at dis- 

 tances varying from 20 to 200 paces 68 1 

 Telephotographs of Birds on the Wing 683 

 Dwarf Gazelle, photographed at sixty 



paces ...... 684 



Jackal taking to Flight, startled by the 



Flashlight 685 



Lioness frightened away from Carcase 



by the Flashlight . . facing 688 

 Aiming at a Pigeon ami Hitting a 



Crow ! . . . . facing 688 

 Hand-camera Photograph of a Jackal 689 

 Photograph of a jackal taken with my 



first Night-apparatus . . . 689 

 Flashlight Photography : my Native 



Models . . . . . .691 



Flashlight Failures . 694, 695 ; 697, 698 

 Photographic Studies of Antelopes 



shot by the Author . . . 699 



Jackals .... /act'/i^ 702 

 East- African Antelopes shot by the 



Author ...... 703 



More Antelopes ..... 707 



Spotted and Striped Hyenas and 



Jackal 7H 



A Jackal in full Might . . .713 

 Guinea-fowl . . . . . 715 

 Farewell to Africa .... 716 



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