In Wildest Africa -^ 



In the face of all this, all parties concerned should take 

 their share in common action. Our museums should be 

 provided with the necessary material. Even if our know- 

 ledge of the African fauna has made sufficient progress, it 

 further concerns us to exert an educating and informing 

 influence on every pioneer of our colonies, so that he may 

 not come in contact with that beautiful animal world in 

 utter ignorance of it. Unfortunately we are still greatly 

 wanting in this respect. However, in recent years a great 

 amount of material has been placed at the disposal of 

 the museums by our colonial officers, officials, and private 

 individuals. Many of them have even made important 

 contributions to our special knowledge of the animal 

 world. 



But now, whether it is a question of tracing out the 

 hidden and unknown life and ways of that equatorial 

 animal world that has come into our possession, or of 

 investigating the customs and languages of races that are 

 barely discovered, or of tracking the horrors of tropical 

 diseases and the germs that excite them and becoming 

 master of that miniature world of life with the lens and the 

 microscope, or of going into the wilderness as a sportsman 

 —the men who devote themselves to all these pursuits 

 will be led onwards by that spell, whose name the reader 

 guesses, the spell of unchanged primeval conditions and 

 untouched nature ! 



May as many as possible of our German sportsmen go 

 forth into our tropical possessions and yield themselves up 

 to this spell ! That which in our hunting grounds at home 

 speaks to their hearts in the rustling of the oak and beech 



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