AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



partly on first-hand information received from well-known naturalists. All 

 sensational features are excluded. Nothing but fully authenticated facts is told. 

 It has been the author's ambition and effort to produce a work on the 

 unfortunately soon extinct wonderful animal world of Africa that w^ould, so 

 to say, perpetuate this vanishing feature of our globe in word and picture. 

 May this magnificent African panorama become a welcome guest in every 

 American home, and may it furnish our growing generation with an invig- 

 orating and wholesome spiritual nourishment and be an incitement tO' brave 

 and noble deeds and love of nature both in young and old. 



AXEL LUNDEBERG. 



