With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



then the great desire arose in me in some manner or other 

 to seize on all these wonderful phenomena from the animal 

 world, and to make them common property and accessible 

 to all. This desire grew in me side by side with the 

 conviction that there was here a wide field for valuable 

 work to be accomplished without delay ; for the East 

 African fauna was rapidly disappearing before the continued 



MY PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT 



advance of civilisation. But good advice was hard to 

 get. The faculty of depicting the animal world with 

 the artist's pencil was denied me ; I possessed, only in a 

 small measure, the ability to describe in tolerable clearness 

 this beautiful, virgin, primeval world. Since the days 

 when the unfortunate Richard Bohm was seized with a 

 malignant fever on the far Upemba Lake in 1884, and 



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