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IN WILDEST AFRICA
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From a Photograph by Nicola Perscheid, Berlin.
iiiIN WILDEST AFRICA
BY
C. G. SCHILLINGS
AUTHOR OF “WITH FLASHLIGHT AND RIFLE IN EQUATORIAL EAST AFRICA”
TRANSLATED BY
FREDERIC WHYTE
WITH OVER 300 PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR’S
NEGATIVES, TAKEN BY DAY AND NIGHT; AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
Vol. I
London
HUTCHINSON & CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW
1907iv
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LION STUDY.Preface
I never dreamed that my book With Flashlightand Rifle—alike in its German and its English andAmerican editions—would receive everywhere so kind awelcome, or that it would make for me so many newfriends, both at home and abroad.
I have been encouraged by this success to give a freshseries of my studies of African wild life and of my “NatureDocuments,” as Dr. Ludwig Heck has designated myphotographs, in the present work.
I should like to express my gratitude once again toall those who, in one way or another, have furthered mylabours in connection with these two books, especially toDr. Heck himself and the other men of eminence andlearning whose names I mentioned in my preface to WithFlashlight and Rifle. A complete list of all my kindhelpers and well-wishers would be too long to print here.I am deeply indebted, too, to the many correspondents—menviof note and young schoolboys alike—who havewritten to me to express their appreciation of my achievements.Their praises have gone to my heart. I owea special word of thanks to President Roosevelt, whosmoothed the way for my book in the United States byhis reference to me in his own volume Outdoor Pastimesof an American Hunter. I take the more pleasure indischarging this debt in that I had long derived intenseenjoyment from President Roosevelt’s masterly descriptionsof wild life and sport in America. President Roosevelthas always been one of the foremost pioneers in themovement for the preservation of nature in all its forms,and has made every possible use of the resources placedat his disposal by his high position to further this end.
This new book of mine is in form a series of impressionsand sketches, loosely strung together; but it willserve, I hope, indirectly to win over my readers to theone underlying idea—the idea upon which I harp so often—ofthe importance of taking active steps to prevent thecomplete extermination of wild life.
Like With Flashlight and Rifle, this supplementarywork can claim to stand out from the ranks of all othervolumes of the kind as r