. The story of Africa and its explorers. d across it on to the Manikaplateau, it could be had in something * An exception must be made, among- those whohave essayed aiithorship, in favour of Gillmore, Bryden,Eglinton, Nicoll, and my lamented friend, the late H. Drummond. For though they might not have ex-plored any new country, their works are admirable con-tributions to field natural history. Drummonds LargeGame and Natural History of South-Bast Africa (187.)) still, and must always continue to be, a valuable work. like its old abundance. Petrus Jacobs, theBoer hunter, who had killed
. The story of Africa and its explorers. d across it on to the Manikaplateau, it could be had in something * An exception must be made, among- those whohave essayed aiithorship, in favour of Gillmore, Bryden,Eglinton, Nicoll, and my lamented friend, the late H. Drummond. For though they might not have ex-plored any new country, their works are admirable con-tributions to field natural history. Drummonds LargeGame and Natural History of South-Bast Africa (187.)) still, and must always continue to be, a valuable work. like its old abundance. Petrus Jacobs, theBoer hunter, who had killed, perhaps, moreelephants than any man in Africa, was stillatwork, and Jan Viljoen and Hartley, theveteran Englishman, had not ceased exploitswhich ran those of old Piet and his son Davidvery close. A host of other names might bementioned among those of the professionalivory-collectors and English sj^ortsmen whothen (and subsequently) ransacked the countryin search of game and amusement. Most ofthem are now under the inhospitable soil of. FEEDKETCK COURTENEY SELOUS. (From a Photograph by J. Thomson, Grosvenor St., W.) South Africa. But the boy who in 1871looked so little likely to survive theperils of his calling, is in 1894 a morerobust man than he was when the twentyyears of a hunters life were still all beforehim and the Geographical Societys medalwas not even dreamt of as the reward ofmap-making in the intervals of more heroicoccupations. Mr. Selous earliest hunting wasin Matabeleland, in the country formerlyruled over by Moselikatse and now—or untillately—by Lo-Bengula, a son after his fathersheart; and for three years he remained inZambesia without ever experiencing the slight-est desire to exchange his free wild life forthe comforts and restraints of ]- t This outline of Mr. Selous travels is gleaned from his papers communicated to the Royal Geographical Society, particularly that in the Geographical Journal, 216 THE STORY OF AFRICA.
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