. The story of Africa and its explorers. who in a quietway connected their names with a section ofAfrica. After a sporting trip in the Soudan ^ * F. L. James: Wild Tribes of the Soudan. AnAccount of Travel and Sport chieiiy in the Base (1S83). of the Somali tribes compelled the journeyto terminate at the Leopard, or Shebelvi,River, the travellers being quite content thatthey escaped so well. Much of the areatraversed had been previously unmappedand unexplored. But the great feat of theexpedition, apart from its geographicalfeatures, was in taking a caravan of a hundredpeople and o
. The story of Africa and its explorers. who in a quietway connected their names with a section ofAfrica. After a sporting trip in the Soudan ^ * F. L. James: Wild Tribes of the Soudan. AnAccount of Travel and Sport chieiiy in the Base (1S83). of the Somali tribes compelled the journeyto terminate at the Leopard, or Shebelvi,River, the travellers being quite content thatthey escaped so well. Much of the areatraversed had been previously unmappedand unexplored. But the great feat of theexpedition, apart from its geographicalfeatures, was in taking a caravan of a hundredpeople and over a hundred camels across awaterless waste to the comparatively fertileregion on the Leopard River. For thirteendays the camels travelled without a drink,and only once, at the end of the ninth day,was a little dirty fluid like liquid mud foundto replenish the exhausted water-bags. None of their predecessors had fared much THE BROTHERS JAMES. 229 better in this vast territory, about the size ofSpam. At various times vessels stranded on. WILLIAM D. JAMES.(Imm a Plwtograpli, by J. Edwards, Hyde Parle Corner, W.) the Somah coast had been seized and theircrews murdered or enslaved. The earlier ex-plorers, like Cruttenden in 1848, did not aim atreaching farther than the mountain rangesome sixty miles from the coast. Burton (Vol. II.,p. 51) being, perhaps, the first who penetratedfarther. Hildebraht, Menkes, Revoil, Sacconi,Panagiotos (who was killed), Haggenmacher,and Porro, who, with all his party, was mur-dered in 1885, are among the best-known ofMessrs. Jamess predecessors. To be killedseemed, indeed, to be the fate of nearly everyman who had hitherto ventured into Somali-land.* The young Englishmen escaped thisfate, though one of them (Mr. Frank LinslyJames) was soon to end his career on thecontinent of which he had essayed so success-fully to be an explorer. A wealthy yachts-man, he had visited nearly every latitudefrom Nova Zemlaia to South America, and in1890 was on the west
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