452 WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



I took five pictures of the man before we res- 

 cued him. One of the prints of these I sent 

 to my friend Edward L, Wilson of Wilson's 

 Photographic Magazine, who sent it to an Eng- 

 lish magazine which reproduced it and char- 

 acterized it as an illustration of American in- 

 humanity. I couldn't rest under this aspersion 

 and wrote in my own defence to the editor. I 

 explained that I had no thought of imperiling the 

 wrecked man's life, that the water was warm and 

 he couldn't take cold, and that although there 

 were big sharks around, vet I was there with mv 

 harpoon and if a shark had got the man I would 

 certainly have got him back. 



In 1889 Edward L. Wilson suggested that I 

 supplement my fugitive articles advocating the 

 camera as a sportsman's weapon by something 

 that should be published between covers and thus 

 constitute a record. I wrote for him "Camera 

 vs. Rifle" which was published in Mosaics for 

 1890 and was, I believe, the first article of its 

 kind to be published. In the article I made use 

 of many of the incidents referred to herein. 



