ioo After Big Game in Central Africa 



often done, I have imagined myself transported to a 

 legendary world, or else to prehistoric times when 

 cave-dwellers hunted the mastodon for food, and I 

 have thought that soon it will no longer be possible 

 for the hunter, even the richest and bravest in 

 the world, to find himself face to face with these 

 giants, and to inscribe their names on the list of his 

 triumphs. 



Those parts of the earth not yet trodden by the 

 foot of man, where nature is left to itself, are 

 becoming more and more rare at the end of the 

 nineteenth century. Future generations will only 

 find in fossils traces of those gigantic animals which 

 an unknown law is sweeping little by little from the 

 face of the globe, giving preference to races smaller 

 and better adapted to lack of space and to the ever- 

 increasing invasion of humanity. 



RHINOCEROS SKULL. 



