WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



make native studies; their pictures and sketches are, 

 of course, of great value. 



But most books on zoology, and most books of travel, 

 are illustrated in a manner to make the judicious weep. 

 Even in books of recent date, pictures of stuffed animals, 

 single and in groups, placed in the open, are passed off 

 as photographs taken in the wilderness. This, of course, 

 is plainly fraud, and the pictures are thus often on a 

 level with the accompanying text, which is concocted 

 by people who, at home, hardly succeed in killing a 



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hare, but who, in foreign lands, meet with the most 

 extraordinary adventures. 



With these glowing descriptions of imaginary ad- 

 ventures, the single narrative of my own experiences 

 and observations cannot compete. 



In one book of travel I read, with astonishment, how 

 the writer had, literally, to "shoot his way" through 

 herds of elephants ; in another, how the writer dispersed 

 elephants by throwing stones at them, so that his car- 



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