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of head of wild game — wildebeests, zebra, Tommies, 

 Grants, ostrich, giraffe, wart hogs, kongoni and 

 eland. We looked spellboimd out of the window of 

 our compartment. It was the most wonderful sight 

 that we had ever seen, and we could hardly wait to 

 get off of the train and start photographing. It 

 looked so easy that we thought we might have our 

 picture done in a few weeks — and have the world's 

 greatest animal picture at that easily ! 



Two weeks after we had equipped our safari in 

 Nairobi we were out on the Althi plains in our first 

 camp. Then came disillusion. Game was every- 

 where, but the stubbornly suspicious animals would 

 not let us get within camera range. For the first 

 three weeks we snapped nothing but extremely long 

 range scenes. Then to my sorrow, when I developed 

 tests I found that the heat waves that dance in the 

 distance had distorted and practically ruined the 

 pictures. 



Next we tried building blinds. We spent endless 

 hours in them waiting for the game to come down 

 to the waterholes within camera range. But there 

 were too many waterholes and the whimsical, sus- 

 picious animals chose to drink elsewhere. They 

 would not come near our blinds. After five weeks we 

 gave up and went back to Nairobi. It was not 

 going to be as easy as we thought. 



Osa and I talked things over and decided on a new 



