92 THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN 



with every kind of photographic apparatus, his 

 cameras were of the latest t3^e, and he had 

 hired fifty Abyssinian porters to carry a special 

 " dark room " of his own invention. 



After three weeks' arduous stalking, he suc- 

 ceeded in approaching to within forty yards of 

 an oasis, where a magnificent male specimen of 



the Leo Africanus was engaged in quenching its 

 thirst. As Mr. Polito unfolded his patent 

 " Audax " homocentric camera and took de- 

 liberate aim at the astonished animal, the latter 

 turned round and began to advance slowly in 

 the direction of the photographer. Such be- 

 haviour was so out of keeping wdth all that he 

 had read upon the subject in various manuals 

 of photography that my friend became some- 



