THE FIRST FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH WITH WHICH I HAD ANY MEASURE OF 

 SUCCESS ! A MONGOOSE MAY BE JUST GUESSED AT UNDER THE THORN-BRANCH. 



XVI 



Photography by Day and by Night 



THERE is an old German recipe for the catching 

 of a lion : you put the Sahara through a sieve — 

 and behold the King of Beasts ! 



The photographing of lions is not to be managed 

 so easily. I am always being asked how I took my 

 photographs. I shall try to give an answer in the 

 following pages. 



Before With Flashlight and Rifle was published, the 

 only successful photographs taken by night that were 

 known to me were some few excellent pictures of certain 

 species of American deer, secured by an enthusiastic 

 sportsman (a legal official in the service of the Govern- 

 ment of the United States) after years of untiring effort. 

 After any number of fruitless attempts, this gentleman 

 contrived to photograph these animals grazing by night 

 near the banks of a river down which he drifted in a 



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