In \Yildest Africa -*> 



I think that I have earned a special right to speak on 

 this matter. For the last fifteen years I have hardly ever 

 carried a gun when at home in Europe ; I have refused 

 the most pressing invitations to shooting parties ; and I 

 have sought pleasure only in the sight of our native wild 

 animals, which I know so well, and in secretly watching 



PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A MALIC GIRAFFF GA/KI.I.K (l./T/lt >CR I MI'S ir.ll.I.l-. K I. 



Brocke) SHOT HV THK AUTHOR. AX KXTKFMFI.Y BF.AUTIFUI. AND KARI-; 



SPECIES, FIRST SEEX 1JY THE AUTHOR IX GERMAX KAST AFRICA IX 1896. 



and observing them. Hut in th(- midst ot a yet unstudied 

 foreign fauna, of which we still know little or nothing, 

 where 1 , there is question of first obtaining some scant}' 

 knowledge oneself, and forming collections ior definite 

 scientific research in the midst of an animal world of this 

 kind I would not hesitate to shoot even large numbers of each 

 species. For there would be good reason lor not merely 



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