In Wildest Africa -^ 



I think that I have earned a special right to speak on 

 this matter. For the last fifteen years I have hardly ever 

 carried a gun when at home in Europe ; I have refused 

 the most pressing invitations to shooting parties ; and I 

 have sought pleasure only in the sight of our native wild 

 animals, which I know so well, and in secretly watching 



PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A MALE GIRAFFE GAZELLE {UTHOCRANIUS WALLERl, 



Brocke) shot by the author, an extremely beautiful and rare 



SPECIES, FIRST SEEN BY THE AUTHOR IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA IN 1 896. 



and observing them. But in the midst of a yet unstudied 

 foreign fauna, of which we still know little or nothing, 

 where there is question of first obtaining some scanty 

 knowledge oneself, and forming collections for definite 

 scientific research — in the midst of an animal world of this 

 kind I would not hesitate to shoot even large numbers of each 

 species. For there would be good reason for not merely 



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