102 AFRICAN ADVENTURE STORIES 



So far as sport is concerned, there is very little 

 sport in collecting most specimens, anyhow; it 

 is not the killing of a creature that delights the 

 field naturalist, it is the specimen itself the 

 knowledge that science has been enriched by 

 another skin and the hope that that skin will 

 be the means of adding a new species to the 

 world's nomenclature or that some new and 

 interesting fact will be revealed. 



"Jacking" animals in a country where there 

 is no danger to the sportsman may be un- 

 sportsmanlike from an animal's point of view, 

 but "jacking" animals at night in the land of 

 the rhinoceros and man-eating lion is not only 

 risky but many of our African acquaintances 

 pronounced it foolhardy. 



We used an ordinary acetylene bicycle lamp 

 and never went out until it was pitch dark; in 

 fact, the blacker the night the better the chance 

 of success. On moonlight nights the light does 

 not penetrate so far and the animals can detect 

 danger more quickly. 



Naivasha, where we did most of our night 

 hunting, is a hamlet of about a dozen houses 

 situated in a tract of country similar, in a way, 

 to the deserts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, 



