Like _With Flashlight and Rifle_, this supplementary work can claim to stand out from the ranks of all other volumes of the kind as regards the character of its illustrations. All those photographs which I have taken myself are reproduced from the original negatives without retouching of any kind. Every single one, therefore, is an absolutely trustworthy record of a scene visible at a given hour upon the African velt by day or by night. I insist upon this point because herein lie both the value and the fascination of my pictures.
In his introduction to the English edition of _With Flashlight and Rifle_ Sir Harry Johnston declares that that work was “bound to produce nostalgia in the lines of returned veterans”; I trust that _In Wildest Africa_ will bring also to such readers a breath from the wilderness awaking in them memories of exciting experiences on the velt. Above all, I trust that its appeal will be not to grown readers alone, but that it will have still stronger attractions for the coming generation.
A preface should not be too long. I shall conclude with the expression of the hope that I may be able presently to secure a new collection of “Nature Documents.”
II. FROM THE CAVE-DWELLER’S SKETCH TO THE FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH 88
III. NEW LIGHT ON THE TRAGEDY OF CIVILISATION 107
VI. THE LONELY WONDER-WORLD OF THE NYÍKA 204
The Author being Carried across a Swamp 23
How Mules and Asses are got across a River 24
Bearers making their way through high grass 41
A Herd of Zebras taking Refuge from the Heat of the Midday Sun _facing_ 48
Flamingoes flying down to the Lake margin 53
Native Settlement on the Pangani River 67
A Herd of White-bearded Gnus (i) at close quarters; (ii) a more distant view; (iii) they show their disquiet; (iv) they decide to retreat _facing_ 80
Prehistoric Sketch on a Fragment of Ivory 88
Hottentot Hunters: a sketch of two hundred years ago 95
Ancient Egyptian representations of Giraffes and other animals 97
Sketches of Animals made by the Bushmen 99
Black-tailed Antelopes running through high grass 101
A Rhinoceros moving through velt grass 107
Three large Gorillas shot by Captain Dominick 115
Herd of Elephants in South Africa, by Harris 127
Group of Wild Animals at Hagenbeck’s zoological gardens 133