To avoid transporting the hundred cases of supplies overland to Naples, it was necessary to get them to Southampton on the eighteenth.

It was a close shave, for only by sending them down by passenger train on that morning were they able to reach Southampton.
Fortunately our hopes were fulfilled, and at last we received word that they were on board and were careening down toward Naples, where we expected to join them on the thirtieth.
[Drawing: Map] [Drawing: Map] [Drawing: _Studying the Lion's Vital Spots_] After disposing of this important preliminary, we then had time to visit the zoo at South Kensington and the British museum of natural history, where we carefully studied many of the animals that we hoped to meet later under less formal conditions.

We picked out the vital spots, as seen from all angles, and nothing then remained to be done but to get down to British East Africa with our rifles and see whether we could hit those vital spots.
Mr.Akeley had an elaborate moving picture machine and we planned to get some excellent pictures of charging animals.

The lion, rhino or other subject was to be allowed to charge within a few feet of the camera and then with a crack of our trusty rifles he was supposed to stop.

We seemed safe in assuming, even without exaggeration, that this would be exciting.
It was at least that.
At last we said farewell to London, a one-sided ceremony, stopped at Rheims to see the aviators, joined the Akeleys at Paris, and after touching a few of the high spots in Europe, arrived in Naples in ample time to catch our boat for Mombasa..