With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



to bring them up, as was the case also with a number of 

 other animals procured for the station by the natives, who 

 were under orders to hand over the young of all animals 

 taken by them. 



Captain Merker had three splendid specimens of the 

 white-tailed guereza (Colobus cadatus] caught for me by 

 natives. We wanted to see whether I could not bring 

 them back to Europe alive. Unfortunately I did not 

 succeed in this. The guereza which I myself got hold of 

 in 1900, a male, and which I presented to the Zoological 

 Gardens at Berlin, is still the only living specimen in 

 Europe. 



At last, after continual downpours, there came a really 

 fine day soon after the departure of the Prince and Captain 

 Merker, and I availed myself of it to set forth from 

 Moshi on my march to the Njiri swamps, intending to 

 pitch my camp by the Himo River. 



On the same day the natives told me of two large 

 bull-elephants which had been observed for some days 

 past in the neighbourhood of the station. I did not like 

 to interfere in any way with the elephant-hunt which 

 the acting commandant of the station had at once 

 organised ; but I should have been glacl to seize the 

 opportunity Doth of photographing the elephants in such 

 bright, sunny weather, and also of securing one of them 

 for a museum. This could only be done in the neighbour- 

 hood of a station. So big an undertaking would fail 

 out in the open for lack of facilities. Unfortunately 

 both elephants were shot in such a way (as was also 

 an immense bull-elephant, which fell to the rifle of 



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