CHAPTER VIII 



"JACKING" ANIMALS 



AY one who has toured through the country 

 at night in an automobile with bright 

 headlights must have noticed how bril- 

 liantly a stray cat's eyes shine when the lamps' 

 rays strike them squarely. The members of the 

 Roosevelt African expedition made use of this 

 fact to secure specimens of the nocturnal ani- 

 mals that otherwise could not have been so 

 easily collected. 



The time was when deer were hunted in the 

 Adirondack Mountains in much the same man- 

 ner, but it has long since been stopped by law 

 on the ground that it was unsportsmanlike. 

 Be that as it may, "jacking" animals in Africa 

 is an entirely different proposition, especially 

 when one's main object is to secure the speci- 

 mens for scientific purposes. We were there for 

 specimens, and it made no difference in what 

 manner they were procured so long as torture 



was not resorted to. 



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