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In Wildest Africa, Vol. 2 · C. G. Schillings — chapter 6 of 30 · ~187 words · public domain

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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

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

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