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members, which I gladly accepted, and this determined 

 my line of life for many years to come. 



The immediate helpfulness to a traveller of such a 

 Society is very great. It has the further advantage 

 of pledging him to undertake work that is authorita- 

 tively judged to be valuable. My vague plans were 

 now carefully discussed, made more definite, and 

 approved, and I obtained introductions to many per- 

 sons useful to me in their respective ways. I was 

 introduced to the then Colonial Secretary, Lord Grey, 

 who gave instructions in my favour to the Governor 

 of the Cape. 



My outfit was procured, and other preparations 

 were far advanced, when my kind friend, Sir Hyde 

 Parker, whose acquaintance I first made when shooting 

 at Culrain, strongly urged me to engage a companion. 

 He told me that a young Swede whose history he 

 knew intimately was then in England, and that I 

 could not do better than come to terms with him. 

 This was Charles J. Andersson, who became my 

 travelling-friend and second in command. He spoke 

 English fluently, through having been brought up by 

 Charles Lloyd, a well-known Scandinavian sportsman 

 and writer, but an Englishman of Ouaker extraction. 

 I may mention here that I made Mr. Lloyd's ac- 

 quaintance some years later, when his face had been 

 frightfully scarred with wounds made by a bear. He 

 told me that an old wounded she-bear had turned 

 upon him, and actually got his head between her jaws 

 to crack it, but her rounded teeth failed to find at 

 once a sufficiently sharp hold and only tore the flesh. 

 His companion shot the animal in time. 



Andersson was accustomed to the rough life of a 



