With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



Governor Count Gotzen has provisionally interdicted any 

 such enterprise a very praiseworthy action on his part. 



Though put into so many tight corners in my rhinoceros- 

 hunts tight corners out of which I often got by sheer 

 luck I never deliberately took the worst risks except 

 when I set about taking photographs. 



It was not the easiest of tasks. Like so many other 

 wild beasts, the rhinoceros is most active when the sky 

 is overclouded just when the camera is no good. The 

 photographer has the animal in a certain position, well 

 lit by the sun, and not too far off conditions that it is 

 extremely difficult to bring about. Then he must have 

 complete control over his nerves. His hands must not 

 shake, or the picture will be spoilt. Malaria and the 

 imbibing of quinine are not things to fit you for 

 such work ! 



When once you have experimented in this kind of 

 photography, without a bodyguard of armed Askaris to 

 protect you, you are not disposed to make light of its 

 dangers and difficulties. 



T^r 



However, in spite of all obstacles, I had some success; 

 and how delighted I used to be of a night, as I busied 

 myself with the development of my negatives and saw 

 gradually come into being the pictures made for me by 

 that magician, the sun ! For magical and nothing less, they 

 seemed to my men these minute pictures of which their 

 master makes his records of the day's events. There is no 

 end to the head-shaking that goes on over them. " Daua ! " 

 "Magic! "-is their word for everything that passes their 

 comprehension. 



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