In Wildest Africa ^ 



the eyes of at least ten lions shining- out from the darkness 

 exactly like lights. I find the following passage, too, in an 

 old book, printed at Nuremberg in 1719 : "Travellers tell 

 us (and I myself have seen it) that you can follow the 

 movements of lions in the dark owing to the way in which 

 their glowing eyes shine out like twin lights." 



Even with a small hand-camera it is possible to 

 secure pictures worth having, such as the studies of 

 heads reproduced on the accompanying pages. These 

 must always have a certain value, as they depict for the 

 most part species of animals which have never yet been 

 secured for zoological gardens. 



I repeat that there is an immense harvest awaiting the 

 man who is prepared to work thoroughly in this field. 

 Why, for instance, should he not succeed in getting a 

 picture by night of an entire troop of lions ? My photo- 

 graphs show how a mating lion and lioness fall on their 

 victim — from different sides ; and how three lionesses may 

 be seen quenching their thirst at midnight, all together. 

 With good luck some one may manage to photograph a 

 troop of a dozen or twenty lions hunting their prey — that 

 would be a fine achievement. Or he might secure a 

 wonderful group of bull-elephants on their way down to 

 a drinking-place. The possibilities are immense. 



Who has ever seen a herd of giraffes bending down in 

 their grotesque impossible attitudes to quench their thirst ? 

 A photographic record of such a sight would be invaluable 

 now that the species is doomed to extinction. But, apart 

 from such big achievements as these, trustworthy photo- 

 graphs of wild life in all its forms — even of the smallest 



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