-* Author's Preface 



Without Captain Merker's valuable " expert " advice I 

 should hardly have been able to carry out my journeys ; 

 and during my severe illness in 1902 he took some 

 capital photographs with my telephoto-lens, five of 

 which are included in this work. 



Dr. Eggel, Dr. Groothufen, and Dr. Phillips, Herr 

 Warnholtz and Herr Meyer, Professor Schweinfurth, 

 Dr. Richard Kant, and Messrs. Louis Draemann, Felix 

 Schull, Alfred Kaiser, C. \V. Hobley, and Tomkins (to 

 whose great kindness I have referred on p. 672), and 

 Captain von der Warwitz have also earned my gratitude 

 in various ways. 



***** 



In spite of my best endeavours, this work will be 

 found to have many faults : I can only hope that my 

 readers will be merciful to them. I find photographing 

 lions an easier matter than writing books ! 



C. G. SCHILLINGS. 



Gi K/.KNICII UK i Di'kKN, GERMANY. 



NOTK. Thanks arc due from the translator to Mr. \Y. von 

 Knoblauch, who has kindly read the proofs for him ; and to Mr. R. 

 Lydekker, who has revised the spelling of all the zoological and 

 geographical names. 



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