With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



eggs, and her young birds had ejected their foster- 

 companions into the river, therein to be drowned ! 



Having by this time familiarised myself with the 

 telephoto apparatus, I succeeded in taking a number of ex- 

 cellent photographs of fringe-eared antelopes (Oryx callotis). 

 This entailed a very interesting but fatiguing pursuit, 

 as the antelopes, whose young ones had put in an 

 appearance only a few weeks before, were very shy. 



In the course of an expedition together one day 

 Prince Lowenstein and I were suddenly surprised by a 

 discharge of guns, which caused us to fire off ours, so 

 as not to run further into danger. The discharge came 

 from the Askaris of a heliograph detachment, which was 

 on its way coastwards from Kilimanjaro, and which, 

 having left the caravan-track, was relying for provisions 

 upon the big game they got en route. 



Most of our people soon went back with great stores 

 of maize which we had laid in at Ruroto for the pro- 

 visioning of our caravan, and as zebras were to be met 

 with as well as antelopes, ostriches, and other big game, 

 we proceeded slowly upstream in order to give the 

 Prince his wished-for chance of sport, while I busied 

 myself with my photography. 



The heat affected us more and more. The grass 

 dried up, and the ground split in the river-bed from the 

 dryness. Locusts of various kinds belonging to the 

 genera Schistocerca and Pachytyhis made their appearance 

 in immense quantities, marabous lying in wait for them 

 in long rows on the velt, often with storks to keep 

 them company. 



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