. The story of Africa and its explorers. 1893 (Vol. II.), p. 252, andS59 (map showing Captain Swaynes and Luigi Bricchetti-Itobecchis routes in the Somali country). to use a homely metaphor, the cream haslong ago been skimmed, and even bags made which may amaze a generation ignorantof. the fortunes that befell the fathers ofAfrican sport. Indeed, at the moment ofwriting, the columns of the newspapers whichconcern themselves with the goings andcomings of fashionable society intimate that 238 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. a young nobleman has returned from atwo and a-half years hunting trip to theZambesi
. The story of Africa and its explorers. 1893 (Vol. II.), p. 252, andS59 (map showing Captain Swaynes and Luigi Bricchetti-Itobecchis routes in the Somali country). to use a homely metaphor, the cream haslong ago been skimmed, and even bags made which may amaze a generation ignorantof. the fortunes that befell the fathers ofAfrican sport. Indeed, at the moment ofwriting, the columns of the newspapers whichconcern themselves with the goings andcomings of fashionable society intimate that 238 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. a young nobleman has returned from atwo and a-half years hunting trip to theZambesi country, where he had a fair shareof the sport still to be had in no niggardamount in the less frequented parts of thatreofion. And, no doubt, there willfrom time to time be similaradventures to record, in spite ofthe undeniable fact that the gooddays of the African sportsman areeverywhere on the wane, and insome places gone never to are the chances of theexplorer as we have known himin the preceding volumes nmch D/Jl FERTIT. KOUTE MAP OF SCHWEIXFURTHS JOURNEY. more promising. No great problems haveremained for solution since Stanleys lastjourney, and it is difficult to indicate on themap any large stretch of country with thenature of which the geographer is still entirelyunacquainted. There are, of course, plenty ofhuge spots crossed by rivers which continueto be indicated by a vague line of dots, andlakes out of number laid down in amanner equally unsatisfactory to the carto-grapher. To have explored these lacunar ofthe map would, at an earlier period in the history of African travel, have gained theadventurer much renown. But nowadays,so numerous are the travellers exploringdifferent districts throughout the DarkContinent, the geographical journals canbarely spare a few lines to the record ofjourneys which in extent and in results arenot inferior to those of Mungo Park and thetravellers who followed him. They have,moreover, now lost novelty. The accidents byflood
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