With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



Mr. Wallihan, my American fellow-sportsman, says 

 in his Camera Shots at Big Game that in thirty years 

 of hunting he has only come once face to face with a 

 puma, the lion of America. He has killed several, and 

 taken excellent photographs of still more, but all these 

 were started by dogs. This reminds me of the fact 

 that 1 only once saw the hyaena which I myself dis- 

 covered (Hycena schillings!} in a state of freedom by day, 

 though I have accounted for about ninety on various 

 occasions, and have photographed a great number of 

 them by night. One of my most trustworthy soldiers, 

 who had long been in the service of the Government 

 as .an Askari, never succeeded in getting a shot at a 

 lion, although, in accordance with the practice at that 

 time (since then very properly abandoned by order of the 

 Governor, Count Gotzen), he was given for many years 

 the exclusive right of shooting the wild animals in the 



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neighbourhood, and had brought down thousands of all 

 kinds a fine way of turning all the old cartridges in the 

 magazine to account ! 



Among travellers and sportsmen who have been 

 fortunate in British East Africa I may mention the 

 Duke A. F. von Mecklenburg and Prince Lichtenstein. 



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It was in South Africa that the unrivalled sportsman 

 F. C. Selous made his mark a good many years ago. 



In some instances young lions of only about ten months 

 old are to be found in search of prey on their own 

 account, apart from their mothers. The young lions which 

 I have had opportunities of observing, or which I have 

 brought home to Europe, were all strongly marked with 



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