WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



building operations, and each night scattered every- 

 thing all over the place. However, I found that 

 throwing wet sand over it with a spade and not with 

 the easily scented hands was the secret of success ; 

 they then left it alone. Most animals have some 

 means of communicating to their comrades a sense 

 of danger, and this is shown in several ways. At a 

 water-hole I know, where elephants used to drink 

 in the daytime, a hunter shot two, and from that day 

 to this they have never visited the place except in the 

 dark. 



I have lain on a rock a few yards from them at 

 night and seen them playing around, blowing sand 

 over themselves and behaving like kittens, and on 

 one occasion a couple of rhino only a few feet under 

 me whilst I was lying along the branch of a tree. I 

 have watched a lion, just after daybreak, walking along 

 roaring, and Impala feeding unconcernedly fifty yards 

 away. The lion was not more than fifty to sixty yards 

 from me, and I took a few feet of film of him, but the 

 light was very poor ; nevertheless, it kept a record. 

 Much has been written on the preservation of game, 

 and this water-hole country would, in my opinion, 

 be an easy place to keep protected. 



At one water-hole I waited in hiding for my 

 " sitters " exactly thirty days, and the picture I show on 

 the screen does not occupy more than thirty minutes. 

 The heat was unbearable, and when a couple of days 



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