. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates . 3 9088 01470 3169 -t>Tl?>\ • 0\%. fSHIG^l) FfAlkjitAL HISTORYMUSEUM LIBRARY LONDONC. KEGAN PAUL & CO., i PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1881 CifT1)- Prinied by & R. Claric, Edinburgh. PREFACE. In offering to the public the following pages, I feel,as editor, that I owe a few words of apology andexplanation to the reader by way of preface—apology for the imperfections of the volume; ex-planation how such imperfections have traveller
. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates . 3 9088 01470 3169 -t>Tl?>\ • 0\%. fSHIG^l) FfAlkjitAL HISTORYMUSEUM LIBRARY LONDONC. KEGAN PAUL & CO., i PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1881 CifT1)- Prinied by & R. Claric, Edinburgh. PREFACE. In offering to the public the following pages, I feel,as editor, that I owe a few words of apology andexplanation to the reader by way of preface—apology for the imperfections of the volume; ex-planation how such imperfections have traveller whose journey to the Zambesi is hererecounted died of fever a few days after he had leftthat river on his way homewards, and the book hasbeen compiled from his note-books, and letters latter were written with no view of publication;the former were intended only for the writers ownsubsequent use and as suggestive guides to me^ is always a question in such a case how far thesurviving friends of the deceased writer or travellerdo well in publishing the unfinished labour of hispen. What his own wish would have been cannotbe known, or even guessed at, unless specially
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