CHAPTER V 



WATERHOLE THRILLS 



WHEN we were thoroughly estabHshed at Lake 

 Paradise we set about our safaris, the na- 

 tive term for expeditions into the field. This was the 

 chief work of our expedition, the purpose of which, as 

 I have said, was to record African wild life in its 

 native haunts in film form. 



I picked the various neighborhoods in which I was 

 to work according to the season of the year and the 

 kind of game I was after. Elephants were foimd right 

 around our camp. We had to go down to the plains 

 to get lions. Waterhole photography was not profit- 

 able in wet weather, as water was then too easy for 

 the game to get. 



To the untraveled in the wilds of Africa there is 

 little distinction between the species of big game as 

 far as habitat goes. But it must always be remem- 

 bered that all the varieties of gazelle and antelope, 

 giraffe and warthog, zebra and lions, are to be foimd 

 in greatest nimibers on the plains; while elephants, 



buffalo, and sometimes rhino are more at home in the 



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