-> Instantaneous Photographs of Wild Life 



I spent a whole year there acquiring experience, 

 and failures and trials taught me daily something new. 

 Again, on my return to Europe, lengthy experiments 

 were made. This time Kommerzienrat Goerz, proprietor 

 of the well-known optician's establishment in Friedenau, 

 placed at our disposal one of his laboratories to further 

 this scientific work. Owing to his kindness we found it 

 possible to devise more suitable apparatus for photograph- 

 ing by night, and thus I v/as enabled to reproduce on 

 the plate the most secret habits of animal life. 



After this I started afresh for Africa with an extensive 

 equipment. This time I was accompanied by my friend 

 Dr. Kiinster, and set out from Tanga for the interior 

 with a party of 130 people. Things proved very different 

 in practice from what we, had worked out in theory. 

 Hard days of disillusionment, aggravated by the difficulties 

 of the climate, fell to our lot. After three months' 

 suffering from acute heart disease and from malaria, I 

 was obliged to throw up the whole expedition and to 

 find my way home. At that time the doctors thought 

 it more than questionable whether I should ever reach 

 home alive, so much had the malaria, in conjunction 

 with the heart trouble, pulled me down. But these 

 troubles also were overcome : my tough constitution 

 withstood all assaults. 



Afterwards I recommenced my studies, turning my 

 experiences to account, and for the fourth time, after 

 experiencing many disappointments, I started out to try 

 to achieve, at least partially, the purpose on which I 

 had set my heart. In a tropical country that is constantly 



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