| Arab sheikhs who had ridden in, camel-back, from the desert to pay their respects | Frontispiece | | FACING | | PAGE | | Sir Alfred Pease’s sketch of our first giraffe hunt | 24 | | Father and R. H. Munro Ferguson at the Elkhorn Ranch, after the return from a successful hunting trip | 34 | | Facsimile of a picture letter by father | 38 | | Putting the tape on a tusker | 42 | | Launching a newly made dugout on the DÚvida | 44 | | A relic of the Portuguese occupation; an old well beside the trail | 56 | | The Death Dance of the Wa Nyika children in memory of the chieftain’s little son | 58 | | Across the bay from Mombasa; the porters ready to shoulder loads and march | 66 | | A desert camp in old Mexico | 78 | | Casares on his white mule | 88 | | Making fast the sheep’s head | 96 | | A noonday halt on the way down river, returning from the hunting country | 106 | | Bringing out the trophies of the hunt | 118 | | The Captain makes advances to a little Indian girl | 152 | | A morning’s bag of prairie chicken in South Dakota | 170 |
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