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iiiancled at tlie time the ' Ariadne ' which escorted H.R.H. the 

 Prince of Wales ou his visit to America, invited ElHs to be his 

 guest on the occasion. Daring the progress of the Prince's visit, 

 Ellis remained attached to the retinue, seeing in a short time 

 more of the couutrv than would have been possible to him, if he 

 had travelled by himself, and preparing himselt' for other visits 

 which he made in subsequent years and which he extended into 

 many parts of the Far West. The object of these later visits 

 was mainly sport with rod and gun, and several seasons were 

 devoted to the big game of the Rocky Mountains ; he travelled 

 southwards into Mexico and British Gruiana, attempting even the 

 iiscent of Koraima, a feat accomplished many years later by 

 Im Thurn. 



The accounts of the wonderful success of sportsmen in South 

 Africa induced him to undertake an expedition into that continent. 

 Having secured the goodwill and assistance of a professional 

 hunter, John Dunn, who enjoyed the special favour of the Zulu 

 King, he was able to penetrate into, and shoot in parts of the 

 I'ountry which were closed to the majority of travellers, and, 

 therefore, still teeming with ever_y variety of big game. On this 

 expedition he met with a serious accident, as far as his friends 

 know, the only one that befel him during his wanderings. A 

 crocodile seized him by the leg inflicting dangerous wounds, by 

 which he was kept for six weeks a close prisoner in a Kaffir 

 kraal. 



On the invitation of Lord Dufferiu, then Governor-General 

 and A'iceroy of Canada, he fished in 1S79 the Grand Cascapedia 

 River, Bay of Chaleur, in the Province of Quebec, having for 

 his companions Mr. L. Iveson and Captain G. A. Percy. An 

 idea of the abundance of fish in that river at that time may be 

 gathei'ed from the record kept by Ellis of that expedition. 

 Between June lUth and August 14th he fished on 4-4 days, 

 during which he caught to his own rod 269 salmon of an 

 aggregate weight of 6714 pounds ; 53 weighed between 30 and 

 44 pounds. 



In 1882 he visited India and organized an expedition into 

 Eastern Turkestan ; travelling by the usual route through Cash- 

 mere and Leh, and spending the winter in Tarkand and Kashgar. 

 During this expedition he had an opportunity of releasing a 

 Punjabi trader from an embarrassing situation : and from a sense 

 of gratitude, this man not only kept up a correspondence with 

 Ellis after his return to England, but also sent him a series of 

 some thirty heads of Ovis poU, such as is not likely to be ever 

 brought together again. On his journey home Ellis visited Japan, 

 some of the South Sea Islands, and Xew Zealand, without making 

 a protracted stay in any of these countries. 



After his return to England he gradually laid aside gun and 

 rod, and finally selected Surrey for his residence. In the 

 charming neighbourhood of Haslemere he built Frensham Hall, a 



