Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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150 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL porters' tents hatl been, and about these hucklled the halt'-naked boys in the cool of the early dawn, waiting for daylight to appear that we might march on in safety. As dawn broke, the unbounded plains of the night before seemed like another land; and our guide pointed to a little blue hill topping the horizon to the south and said, "Sisi kwenda huku ' (We are going there.) When our day's march ended we had covered about twenty miles and were then camped at the only water hole in the bottom of a dr\- river bed. Our
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Messrs. \. HmiI.IvIV.- I )iit,'iii.>ri- -.iiul .Imiih-^ I, ( hnk on llii; vvay lo Alrka tents were pitched some hundred ;yards back, that we might not disturl) the animals which were in the habit of drinking at the hole in the night. Dugmore, after months of preparation in New York and London, had assembled a wonderful outfit of cameras and all the necessary paraphernalia for develop- ing and for making prints in.the field, whether by running brook or muddy water hole, and his success was due as greatly to developing immediately and knowing whether or not he had his pic- tiu"e before he turned his attention to other things, as it was to his ability and technical knowledge as a photog- rapher. The advan- tage of developing at once while there is time and opportunity to take the picture again if necessary, rather than bringing the undevel- oped plates home and then developing, is man- ifold. It insures against loss through plates and chemicals going bad un- der unfavorable condi- tions; against loss of plates through the cam- era having sprung a leak unnoticed; against wasted effort through over or under exposure and many other condi- tions, any one of which might make the result a failure. We had brought with IIS only such guns and annnunition as seemed necessary to insure our safety, as it was not for animal trophies we had come l)ut for photo- graphs.

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