WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



no great difficulty in securing all the pictures I wanted. 

 My " sitters " appeared to take not the slightest notice 

 of me. Really, I believe I need not have troubled 

 to get into my hiding-place, for after I had finished, 

 and I walked out into the open at the water's edge, 

 they did not even vouchsafe me a glance. It was a 

 curious contrast to their previous shyness, a proof 

 that they must rely chiefly on their sense of smell to 

 warn them of danger. 



On the whole I was well repaid for my hours 

 of waiting, for the long, dreary delays, for having 

 suflfered the heat and the ants and the midges. In 

 one film I secured a school of hippo, a crocodile, and 

 a water tortoise, almost a unique record. I believe 

 these moving pictures of mine were the first ever taken 

 of hippo in their native waters. At any rate, I had 

 never seen or heard of any others. I was also fortunate 

 enough to secure a moving picture of a crocodile 

 and a heron together, and whilst exposing my film 

 a cormorant came to join them — a truly strange 

 combination. 



Yet even that was not the end of my luck during 

 that wonderful day. Whilst on my way back to camp 

 I got ten or fifteen feet of a colobus monkey in a tree, 

 and very nearly succeeded in getting some of a hyena. 

 Every now and then that kind of luck comes one's 

 way, and makes up for many disappointments. 



In order to reach my camp again I had to ford 



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