The century illustrated monthly magazine . ngon towards the mass of porters, my com-panion, Dr. Abbott, turned the tide of battleby banging into them with his big elephant-rifle. Attention is called, with, I believe, pardon-able pride, to the photograph of a bandof Masai warriors. The securing of such apicture is a triumph alike for the Hawk-Eyecamera and the amateur photographer. Itmust not be supposed that this war-party ofwild El-moran are tractable subjects group-ing themselves for the purpose of being pho-tographed. The Masai warriors are the mostintractable type of the African savage now
The century illustrated monthly magazine . ngon towards the mass of porters, my com-panion, Dr. Abbott, turned the tide of battleby banging into them with his big elephant-rifle. Attention is called, with, I believe, pardon-able pride, to the photograph of a bandof Masai warriors. The securing of such apicture is a triumph alike for the Hawk-Eyecamera and the amateur photographer. Itmust not be supposed that this war-party ofwild El-moran are tractable subjects group-ing themselves for the purpose of being pho-tographed. The Masai warriors are the mostintractable type of the African savage now inexistence. The party in the photograph, armedwith their huge, beautifully shaped spears andelliptical shields, are coming to our camp to de-mand hongo, or tribute, for the privilege ofpassing through their country. At no slightrisk, the writer concealed himself behind abush, and as they came prancing and war-chanting up, the Hawk-Eye was leveled atthem through an opening in the bush; a touchof the spring, and one of the most remarkable. AFRICAN GAME.—A HAWK-EYE SNAP-SHOT. The photograph of porters, carrying on theirheads loads of meat, was taken on the UseriPlain, to the east of Kilima-njaro, last July. Itdepicts a successful mornings hunt. The headsborne by the two central figures are those of abull and cow eland, and the other loads arethe hams and portions of their carcasses. photographs ever brought out of the DarkContinent is secured. It is quite evident that with an ordinaryphotographic apparatus, with tripod, compli-cated adjustment, darkening-cloth, and what-not, such a picture as this could never havebeen obtained. 20 A HAWK-EYE VIEW OF AFRICA.
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