AUTHOR'S PREFACE 



world. We are not any longer dependent on lucky 

 chances; the road opened by Schillings' methods will 

 lead, no doubt, to deeper insight into the life of animals. 

 Even art will profit by these documents of nature, as the 

 next art exhibition may show. ..." 



Dr. Lampert, of Stuttgart, director of the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History, says: "We know now, 

 for the first time, what pictures of animals from life 

 really are. Schillings' pictures are of eminent impor- 

 tance in many respects. The animal world of Africa 

 will live in these pictures long after the animals have 

 been swept from the earth by the advance of man. ..." 



My main motive in quoting the opinions of these men, 

 prominent as experts in natural science, is to encourage 

 and exhort other hunters and explorers to procure 

 similar "documents" of the fauna, which I have not 

 been able to reach, and to do it quickly before the 

 animals have been destroyed and our opportunities for 

 observing them have been lost. 



In conclusion, I want to extend my hearty thanks to 

 all who have aided me, directly or indirectly, in accom- 

 plishing whatever little I may have achieved. I also 

 crave the indulgence of the reader for my many short- 

 comings as a writer. To write books seems to me a 

 harder task than to photograph lions in the wilderness 



C. G. Schillings. 



Weiherhof, Guerzenich, near Duere.n'. 



