CAMERA SHOTS 



riers might proceed on their march into the interior of 

 Central Africa. These scenes are inimortahzed by draw- 

 ings furnished by an obliging artist. 



Next come descriptions and pictorial representations 

 by genuine travellers and explorers, who, being truthful 

 at other times, do not hesitate to exaggerate and mis- 

 represent actual observations. There one may read, 

 and also see, how they laid low, at the closest range, 

 elephants, lions, and rhinoceroses facing the hunter with 

 open jaws. 



The lack of veracity among hunters, in all lands and 

 climes, is proverbial; those hunting in distant and lit- 

 tle-known lands may'falsify with comparative impunity. 

 But it is the plain duty of all travellers and explorers 

 who have science and truth at heart to try to counter- 

 act the influence of books of the character described, 

 and to see to it that fake pictures and descriptions are 

 taken for what they are worth. 



President Roosevelt, in the preface to Wallihan's 

 book, justly remarks that it strikes him as preposter- 

 ous that people who neither are hunters, nor could be 

 if they wanted to, insist on decorating their homes with 

 other people's trophies. 



It is a common practice among travellers, in East 

 Africa particularly, to have their hunting done by their 

 native companions, the Askari, and, accepting their 

 hunting stories as true, to \vrite them up as personal 

 experiences. 



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