ONE OF THE OLDEST NATURE DOCUMENTS FROM THE HAND OF MAN, 

 PREHISTORIC SKETCH OF A MAMMOTH ON A FRAGMENT OF IVORY. 



(From L. Reinhardt's work Der Mensch zur Eiszeit in Europa.) 



II 



From the Cave-dweller's Sketch to the 

 Flashlight Photograph 



THE mysterious charm of wild nature, undisturbed, 

 almost untouched, by the hand of man, — the charm 

 inherent in all that I have in mind when I talk of '-the 

 spell of the Elelescho " — explains the keen and profound 

 interest with which my pictures of animal life were 

 received at home. 



In these days, when even electricity has been harnessed 

 by men, there is a feeling that the knell has been sounded 

 of all that is wild, be it man or beast. And however 

 unpretending and inadequate the little pictures might be 

 that I had won from the wilderness, yet all nature-lovers 

 felt that they had here before them authentic, first-hand 

 records revealing secrets which the eye of man had never 

 before looked upon, or had had but scant opportunity for 

 studying. 



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