Lioness frightened away from Carcase by the Flashlight _facing_ 688 Aiming at a Pigeon and Hitting a Crow! _facing_ 688 Hand-camera Photograph of a Jackal 689 Photograph of a Jackal taken with my first Night-apparatus 689 Flashlight Photography: my Native Models 691 Flashlight Failures 694, 695; 697, 698 Photographic Studies of Antelopes shot by the Author 699 Jackals _facing_ 702 East-African Antelopes shot by the Author 703 More Antelopes 707 Spotted and Striped Hyenas and Jackal 711 A Jackal in full Flight 713 Guinea-fowl 715 Farewell to Africa 716 [Illustration: SPURRED GEESE (_PLECTROPTERUS GAMBENSIS_).] VIII In a Primeval Forest Scenes of marvellous beauty open out before the wanderer who follows the windings of some great river through the unknown regions of Equatorial East Africa. The dark, turbid stream is to find its way, after a thousand twists and turns, into the Indian Ocean. Filterings from the distant glaciers of Kilimanjaro come down into the arid velt, there to form pools and rivulets that traverse in part the basin of the Djipe Lake and at last are merged in the Rufu River. As is so often the case with African rivers, the banks of the Rufu are densely wooded throughout its long course, the monotony of which is broken by a number of rapids and one big waterfall. Save in those rare spots where the formation of the soil is favourable to their growth, the woods do not extend into the velt. Trees and shrubs alike become parched a few steps away from the sustaining river. The abundance of fish in the river is tremendous in its wilder reaches--inexhaustible, it would seem, despite the thousands of animal enemies. The river continually overflows its banks, and the resulting swamps give such endless opportunities for spawning that at times every channel is alive with fry and inconceivable multitudes of small fishes.