AUTHOR'S PREFACE 



were, upon the sensitive-plates before they had become 

 aware of the light. 



I want to emphasize the fact that, even where some 

 pictures show remarkable, extraordinary light-effects — 

 like the telephotographic pictures, showing the white, 

 shining tusks of the male elephants, and the flash-light 

 picture, showing the glowing eyes of the Honess (chapter 

 xix.) — no retouching has been done. This.feature dis- 

 tinguishes my pictures from all others previously taken of 

 animals in the wilderness. 



The reader is advised to view the pictures which were 

 taken from a distance from not too close a range ; they 

 show to better advantage when they are held off a little 

 distance. 



William Boelsche writes about my pictures as follows : 

 "Many pictures have been taken at night by flash-light; 

 they reveal to us the most intimate Hfe of the animals 

 which no human eye had ever witnessed before, ever 

 since man and beast met in the wilderness. . . . Here 

 nature has been made to focus itself on the photographic 

 plate. ..." 



Professor P. Matschie says: "I am custodian of the 

 collection of mammals in the Berhn Museum of Natural 

 History, and often have to pass judgment on animal 

 pictures. It gives me the greatest pleasure to say that 

 Schillings' pictures have aroused my deepest interest; 

 they constitute the beginning of a revolution in our 

 methods of observing the life and ways of the animal 



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