Antoniny, January 1908.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| A Forest Scene | [Frontispiece] |
| The Big Lake in Pilawin | [3] |
| European Bison in the Open | [5] |
| The Main Entrance of the Antoniny Palace | [9] |
| Bears killed by the Count | [13] |
| Wapiti Stags trying for the Mastery | [15] |
| American Bison in the Snow | [17] |
| Wapiti in the Snow | [19] |
| Wapiti calling | [23] |
| European and American Bison in the Pilawin Park | [27] |
| A Typical Pilawin Scene | [30] |
| Map of Pilawin | [31] |
| The Shooting-Lodge at Pilawin | [33] |
| Ourselves starting from the Shooting-Lodge | [35] |
| Young Elk and Wapiti | [39] |
| Wapiti in Autumn | [43] |
| Wolf killed near Antoniny in 1907 | [46] |
| The Pilawin Beaver | [47] |
| Elk in Winter | [51] |
| An Asiatic (? Sayansk) Wapiti | [56] |
| Wapiti Stag and Hind | [57] |
| The Dead Bison | [60] |
| Wapiti Stag reposing | [61] |
| A Bull Elk | [65] |
| The Pekin or Dybowski Bucks | [67] |
| Elk Calves in the Snow | [68] |
| The American Bison | [70] |
| The European Bison Herd | [71] |
| American Bison by the Stage in the Forest | [73] |
| Wapiti by the Lake | [77] |
| A Bull Elk | [79] |
| Wapiti in Winter | [82] |
| One of the Best Wapiti, with the Antlers in Velvet | [87] |
| A View in Pilawin with Asiatic Wapiti in the Foreground | [91] |
| Caucasian Red Deer | [92] |
| A Pekin or Dybowski Stag | [97] |
| A Big Wapiti | [99] |
| European Bison in a Forest Ride | [103] |
| A Good Wapiti | [111] |
| A Wapiti at Gaze | [115] |
A Trip to Pilawin
Towards the close of the year 1906 I received an invitation from Count Joseph Potocki to pay him a visit in the following August in order to see his collection of deer at Pilawin, in the Russian province of Volhynia. After some preliminary correspondence, an invitation was also sent by Countess Potocki to my eldest daughter; and on receipt of this I finally decided to undertake the trip.
We started by the 8.35 P.M. boat-train from Victoria on Monday, August 19, and reached Warsaw in time for breakfast on the following Wednesday. Breakfast at the Hotel Bristol (where, for the first time, we tasted fresh Russian caviare) was a welcome preliminary to an inspection of Warsaw, under the guidance of the Count’s agent, who had kindly come to meet us on arrival at the station. The city can be seen easily and quickly by means of the excellent service of horse-trams, now in course of replacement by electric cars on the overhead-wire system.