Mr.Akeley's chief object was to get a group of five elephants for the American Museum of Natural History and incidentally secure photographic and moving picture records of animal life.

Both he and Mrs.Akeley had been in Africa before and knew the country as thoroughly perhaps as any who has ever been there.

Mr.Akeley undoubtedly is the foremost taxidermist of the world, and his work is famous wherever African animal life has been studied.

Mr.Stephenson went for the experience in African shooting, and I for that experience and any other sort that might turn up.
To supply an expedition of four white people, we had one head-man, whose duty it was to run the _safari_--that is, to get us where we wanted to go.

The success and pleasure of the _safari_ depends almost wholly upon the head-man.