One Season's Game-Bag with Camera 



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FLASHLIGHT : BOAT RIGGED FOR NIGHT-HUNTING WITH CAMERAS, SHOWING FLASH- 

 LIGHT APPARATUS AND JACK LAMP: TAKFN 1893 



ful of man's presence, whatever may be 

 its attitude towards the other animals of 

 the forest. To this fact alone does the 

 predaceous quadruped now owe its exist- 

 ence, for were it to meet instead of re- 

 treat from the man with the gun the end 

 would long ago have been reached. 



And let it be said in justification of my 

 apparent disposition to point out many 

 prevailing misconceptions regarding wild 

 animals that originally as a sportsman I 

 believed in or accepted many of these 

 popular fallacies. For it must be remem- 

 bered that with the big-game sportsman 

 few ever continue to kill moose, elk, cari- 

 bou, or bear in large numbers or con- 

 tinue to hunt the same animals year after 

 year, since usually they seek a few good 



trophies and revolt against the further 

 killing of animals too huge for transpor- 

 tation or too tough for the platter; and 

 hence those who hunt the same game sea- 

 son after season usually confine them- 

 selves to the smaller varieties of the deer 

 family or to animals and birds whose 

 flesh may be utilized. 



Therefore most of the errors are due. 

 in reality, to inexperience with certain 

 habits of particular animals, however 

 great the experience of the big-game 

 hunter in the general field of sport. 



The eye of the camera, the light of the 

 jack, and of the penetrating flash, to- 

 gether with the same animal under close 

 observation for hours at a time and year 

 after year, have shown that in a single 



