^ Night Photography under Difificulties 



more over my treasure-trove in that it exempted me from 

 shooting any more zebras or gnus myself. But my 

 calculations were all to be upset. On my notification to 

 the station that I had not bagged the animals myself, but 

 had found them lying about in a bush-camp where they 

 had been abandoned by nomadic native hunters, it was 

 decided that they could not be recognised as my property 



VULTURES. 



without further proceedings. Eventually the matter was 

 decided in my favour by a governmental decree, but in 

 the meantime the skins were considerably damaged by 

 insects and otherwise. Could I have foreseen this, I 

 should not have been at the trouble and serious expense of 

 saving them, but should have left them as a welcome feast 

 to the hyenas and jackals. What I was still able to save 

 out of the lot I sent later to the Berlin Museum. 



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