Introduction 



CONSCIOUSLY or unconsciously, Herr Schillings 

 has followed in the footsteps of Mr. Edward North 

 Buxton, who was the first sportsman of repute having 

 the courage to stand up before a snobbish public and 

 proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind 

 is the snapshotting with the camera (with or without the 

 telephotographic lens), rather than the pumping of lead 

 into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many 

 other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds. If 

 any naturalist-explorer previously deprecated the frightful 

 devastation which followed in the track of British sports- 

 men, and a few American, Russian, German, or Hungarian 

 imitators, it was thought that he did so because he was 

 a bad shot, or lacked the necessary courage to fire at a* 

 dangerous beast. Mr. Buxton, however, had proved his 

 manhood (so to speak) in the many sporting adventures 

 which preceded his conversion. Therefore people have 

 listened to him, and the way has been paved for such 

 a work as that of Herr Schillings. 



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