In Wildest Africa, Vol. 2Schillings, C. G. (Carl Georg)
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In Wildest Africa, Vol. 2
Schillings, C. G. (Carl Georg)
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Hunting -- Africa; Natural history -- Africa; Nature photography
My Rhinoceros: in the Berlin “Zoo” and on the Velt 606, 607
How my captive “Rhino” was Carried to Camp 612
Carrying a Dead Leopard 612
My “Rhino” and her Two Companions 613
A Young Hyena extracted from its Lair 613
Vultures:
On the Wing 618
Hovering over a Carcase 619
Moving away from a Carcase 621
My Pelicans 623
A Siesta in Camp 625
A Strange Friendship 628
“Fatima” Prowling Round 629
Carrying a fine Leopard 631
Killing Game in accordance with Mohammedan rites 633
Cutting up the Carcase 633
A Trapped Leopard 635
The Baboon and the Little Black Lady 636
Moonlight on the Velt _facing_ 636
A Fowl of the Velt 637
A River-horse Resort 639
One of the Peaks of Donje-Erok 641
Drawing Water for the March 643
Vultures 645
Flashlight Photographs 648, 649
My Night-apparatus in position 653
A Pet of the Caravan 654
A Baobab-tree 655
Flashlight Photograph of a Mongoose 657
Apparatus for Night Photography 660, 661
Vultures contesting the Possession of Carrion 665
First Dry-plate Photograph, probably,
ever taken in the African Desert 667
Photographic Mishaps:
Cracked Glass Plate 669
Plate Exposed Twice 673
Telephotograph of Ostriches 677
Photographs of Birds taken at distances
varying from 20 to 200 paces 681
Telephotographs of Birds on the Wing 683
Dwarf Gazelle, photographed at sixty paces 684
Jackal taking to Flight, startled by the Flashlight 685
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