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part in such enterprises. Then, in the text referred to, 

 our "missionary" is said to have taken "other scenes 

 of animal hfe" at closest range — for instance, a lion 

 watching for his prey. The truth is that the mission- 

 ary had been incorporated into the picture-group to 

 make it more acceptable to the people at home. The 

 group of animals was simply made up of stuffed speci- 

 mens placed on the steppe. To cap the climax of 

 fraudulent representation, the stuffed zebra used by 

 the ingenious fakir belongs to a species which has dis- 

 appeared from East Africa, and can only be found in 

 South Africa. 



These instances of pictorial falsehood could be mul- 

 tiplied indefinitely. I shall give just one more. In an 

 illustrated weekly paper appeared, not long ago, what 

 purported to be a hunting scene from Egypt. A num- 

 ber of fellahs were going with big sticks for a crocodile 

 — as if one could hunt crocodiles in this childish man- 

 ner! It goes without saying that this was but a "liv- 

 ing picture," and that the crocodile was stuffed. 



My object in citing these examples of deception is 

 simply to warn the reading pul)lic to challenge the de- 

 ceivers, and to insist on the truth being told at all 

 times, even when telling hunting stories, in case the 

 writers want to be taken seriously. Of course, no well- 

 informed scientist is deceived by these phantastic ex- 

 hibitions. 



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