In Wildest Africa ^ 



is now descending on the wilderness, so will an everlasting 

 night soon come down upon all the life and movement 

 that I have tried so inadequately to describe in merest 

 outline. 



About a century ago the ''Twilight of the Gods "^ 

 (G otter d'dmmertmg) began for all the wild life of the Cape 

 region of South Africa. Even before these hundred years 

 had run out it was ended ; this abundant flood of life 

 had disappeared. ... 



BATELEUR EAGLE IiN FLIGHT. 



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