-*> Instantaneous Photographs of Wild Life 



Hunting by proxy in the persons of guides or Askaris 

 unfortunately plays too big a role in Hast Africa. The 

 " sportsman " then describes his own adventures, relying 

 on information supplied by the natives and adducing the 

 trophies in his possession as documentary evidence. 



We are still very much in the dark over many biological 

 questions regarding our own wild animals, and we lack really 

 good photographs of most of the animals of our country 

 in their natural surroundings. Here is a wide field for 

 artistic endeavour, and it would be a matter for great 

 satisfaction if it were cultivated as soon as possible. The 

 same is true still more of wild beasts in foreign lands. 

 Even the slightest item of original observation is really 

 valuable. Photographs taken in complete freedom, how- 

 ever, are biological documents of the highest importance 

 in the opinion of my friends Professor Matschie and 

 Dr. Ludwig Heck, and in that of Wilhelm Bolsche, who 

 lias referred to my pictures in most gratifying terms in his 

 work Weltblick. I am tempted here (if only to encourage 

 other sportsmen to combine photography with shooting in 

 the same way) to quote the words in which yet another 

 zoological authority, Professor Lambert, ot Stuttgart, has 

 alluded to my work in this field. " These pictures," he 

 declares, " are of the greatest importance. In them, the* 

 wild animals of Africa will live on long after they have 

 been sacrificed to the needs of advancing civilisation." 



It was in 1896 that I had my first opportunity of getting 

 to know the velt of the interior of Africa ; and it was 



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