A DISTANT VIEW OF KILIMANJARO 



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Elephant>Hunting 



FOR months I had been trying- in vain to get some 

 good photographs of elephants with my telephoto 

 lens, and also to get hold of a young elephant alive. 

 My many disappointments were more than made up lor, 

 however, one September morning. Troubled apparently 

 by the poisoned arrows discharged at them by the 

 Wakamba, a large herd ot elephants had made their 

 way down from the mountains and paid a visit during the 

 night to the stream by my cam]). They had destroyed 

 the scares, fashioned out of sheets of white paper, which 

 I had left on the water with a view to frightening the 

 animals away to other drinking- places, where I could 

 photograph them conveniently. 



With the exception of lions, I had found that all 

 animals fought shy of these scares, but in the bright 

 moonlight they seem, on the contrary, to have attracted 

 the elephants ; for, to my astonishment, I found that my 



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