-*> Night Photography under Difficulties 



more over my treasure-trove in that it exempted me from 

 shooting any more zebras or gnus myself. But my 

 calculations were all to be upset. On my notification to 

 the station that I had not bagged the animals myself, but 

 had found them lying about in a bush-camp where they 

 had been abandoned by nomadic native hunters, it was 

 decided that they could not be recognised as my property 



VULTURES. 



without further proceedings. Eventually the; matter was 

 decided in my favour by a governmental decree, but in 

 the meantime the skins were considerably damaged by 

 insects and otherwise. Could I have foreseen this, I 

 should not have been at the trouble and serious expense of 

 saving them, but should have left them as a welcome feast 

 to the hyenas and jackals. What 1 was still able to save 

 out of the lot I sent later to the Berlin Museum. 



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