■^ Photography by Day and by Night 



nearly gave the thing up as hopeless) before I managed 

 to get good results in the wilderness, though theoretically, 

 and to a certain extent in practice at home, the apparatus 

 had been perfected. The heavy dew of the tropical 

 night, or a sudden shower of rain, may easily " do for" the 

 flashlight unless the apparatus has been thoroughly safe- 

 guarded. And there are any number of other mishaps 



FLASHLIGHT FAILURES III. TWO TURTLE-DOVES (ONE ON THE WING) SET 

 MY NIGHT-APPARATUS WORKING. MISHAPS OF THIS KIND OFTEN OCCUR. 



to be provided against. On one occasion hyenas carried 

 off the linen sandbags that form part of the apparatus ; 

 mongooses made away wnth the aluminium lid of the 

 lens-cap and hid it in their stronghold, an ant-hill ; ants 

 gnawed the apparatus itself. And when the photograph 

 has at last been taken, a lot of other harmful contingencies 

 have to be kept in mind. The fact that several shillings' 



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