. The story of Africa and its explorers. ched Ovampoland, thenalmost entirely unknown. But any eagernessthey felt to explore the Cunene River, or thelands towards the east, was thwarted by theperemptory refusal of the Ovampo chief topermit his white visitors to go farther thanhis capital. Accordingly, to Walvisch Baythey were forced to return. This was the lastessay of Mr. Gaiton in African or other ex-ploration, though his pleasant narrative tobtained for him one of the Royal Geo-graphical Societys medals, which had beendenied to Alexander and to Harris. Andersson, however, could not bear tor
. The story of Africa and its explorers. ched Ovampoland, thenalmost entirely unknown. But any eagernessthey felt to explore the Cunene River, or thelands towards the east, was thwarted by theperemptory refusal of the Ovampo chief topermit his white visitors to go farther thanhis capital. Accordingly, to Walvisch Baythey were forced to return. This was the lastessay of Mr. Gaiton in African or other ex-ploration, though his pleasant narrative tobtained for him one of the Royal Geo-graphical Societys medals, which had beendenied to Alexander and to Harris. Andersson, however, could not bear toreturn without accomplishing the feat onwhich he had set his heart. Li this hesucceeded. He reached Lake Ngami, and t He was born in 1827, at Elfsdalen, in Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa(1853 ; new edition, 1892). 212 THE STORY OF AFRICA. explored the Okavango River, now known tobe connected with the Zambesi basin. Takingto hunting as a profession, he built a campfor himself and another celebrated FRANCIS GALTOJf. Frederick Green, in Ovampoland. Being foolish enough to join in a war between the Damaras and Nam aquas, heGreen wahiberg, was rescued by Green, who foundHemmings. ^^,^^^ j^-^^^ wounded in the path of the enemy, and, after lying between lifeand death, rose a cripple, to begin his lastjourney in an ox-cart. Accompanied byEricsson, a Swedish hunter, he reached thelong-sought-for Cunene, but he was seizedwith dysentery and died, on the banks of theOvakuambi, on the 5th of July, 1867. Hisgrave is still pointed out by the natives, whohave enclosed the last resting-place of thehapless Scandinavian by a hedge of thorns.* Andersson found animal life abundant inall the country over which he travelled,and as a slayer of the elephant and lionhe had scarcely a superior among hiscontemporaries. Meanwhile, however. LakeNgami, by the multitude of wild beasts that * Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and Discoveries inSouth-Western Africa (1855); Th
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