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effort than a handsome rear view of a vanishing 

 animal with his tail waving goodbye as he goes over 

 the hill. 



The elephant presents a special set of problems to 

 the camera hunter. Generally speaking, the ele- 

 phant sleeps through the day and eats in the cool of 

 the evening. We spent weary weeks following vari- 

 ous small herds before we could catch them under 

 light conditions which would permit the making of 

 satisfactory pictures; even then we did not know 

 enough of their habits to be able to get close to them. 

 We tried to solve our elephant problems by employ- 

 ing Boculy, probably the greatest of all the black 

 elephant trackers in Africa. But he often got us too 

 close and we spent more time getting out of the way 

 than we did making pictiu"es. 



We had been out on safaris for a little more than 

 a year when Osa and I took stock of our results. We 

 had spent a large share of the money appropriated 

 for our expedition and felt we did not have enough 

 animal pictures to make a satisfactory production. 

 We decided we would simply have to take more 

 chances and get closer to the animals, else the whole 

 project would be a disastrous failure. So we threw 

 caution to the winds and with our hearts in our 

 mouths went back to work. 



Now the fun started. We got pictures, all right, 

 but every picture entailed a definite risk. I am half 



