Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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upright sportsman, he shoots a missile buck and takes its head a mounted later hang on his fireplace or on his trophy room. As he looks at it, if he very imag- inations, it brings back to him the feel of the morning air, the sweet gy of the forest and the wild thrill of exultation as the buck went down. But all that is memory picture only and it is limited (Himself) to the can a camera mounted head does never bring to others the smallest part of the joy he felt & the beauty of the scene he saw. To the naturalist the excitement of the hunt is only one of the fascinating sides of the sport. Not only does he have the pleasure of planning the grape but the actual reconstruction brings him direction, in the Museum when he is up to guide or mislay brings back in a double measure careful the happenings of that day in the wilds & when strange lands and stranger people. And with what loving care the labours to reproduce with fidelity and minutest detail the scene of his hunt that it may bring to his city dwelling audience some part of his own pleasure.