-^ Night Photography under Difficulties 



itself to the sportsman and explorer. A number of small 

 streams take their rise on the Donje-Erok. In the dry 

 weather these are speedily absorbed by the sun-dried soil 

 of the velt, but in the wet season they have quite a long 

 course, and combine to form a series of small swamps. 

 When these have gradually begun to dry and have come 

 to be mere stretches of blackish mud, they reveal the 



A RIVER-HORSE RESORT. 



tracks of the herds of animals that have waded through 

 them, elephants and rhinoceroses especially — mighty auto- 

 graphs imprinted like Runic letters upon wax. 



In the dry season great numbers of animals made 

 always for a source — very speedily dried up — to the south 

 of the mountain. It was in this vicinity that I proposed 

 to secure my pictures of wild life. 



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