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The National Geographic Magazine 



Flashlight. Porcupine Invades Houseboat 

 White Fish L,ake. Flash fired as animal starts for gang plank 



pursuing wild life, and at the same time 

 largely counterbalance the greater diffi- 

 culty of photographing birds or animals 

 when compared with the ease of shooting 

 the same under similar circumstances ; 

 for the difference between stalking within 

 rifle range of a moose, a deer, or a bear 

 and getting within a few yards of the 

 same, in broad daylight, with the camera, 

 need not be pointed out. The restrictions 

 upon the gun which prevent the sports- 

 man hunting the golden eagle, the snowy 

 owl, the graceful flamingo, the gulls, 

 herons, hawks, and those hundreds upon 

 hundreds of birds, varying from the tiny 

 humming bird to the mighty condor, do 

 not apply to the man with the camera or 

 prevent him from picturing the myriads 

 of animal life, wherein the porcupine, the 

 wild cat, the coon, the wolf, the alligator, 

 or the sea-lion may be considered the fair- 



est and most attractive kind of game, be- 

 cause requiring the same skill and the 

 same patience which leads the sportsman 

 to pursue to the death those varieties of 

 animals which a fictitious reason allows 

 them to kill for sport, under the assump- 

 tion that their edible qualities is a justifi- 

 cation. 



"It is only within the last few years 

 that compact photographic appliances, 

 quick shutters, rapid dry plates and films 

 have made possible successful work on 

 large game, or otherwise some of us 

 might have reformed before. The longer 

 we have hunted and the greater our suc- 

 cess, the less able are we in after years to 

 recall many of such scenes with satis- 

 factory distinctness. We have taken too 

 many mental photographs, so that our 

 gray film fails to be clearly and perma- 

 nently impressed with the thousand 



