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that his twin brother Robert was constructing a hike on 

 his father's estate near Cranbrook. To commemorate the 

 event, it was determined to make it in shape as nearly as 

 possible a miniature facsimile of Lake Chad. The Lake 

 at Swifts Place is now a very exact representation of the 

 original, as determined by Boyd's Survey, and characteristic 

 features have been added such as the boat-house and duck 

 huts upon the banks and the island, which resemble; the 

 reed-built huts of the Buduuia tribe inhabiting Lake Chad. 

 Of his last journey we can say but little. He visited 

 the Islands of San Thome, Principe, and Annabon, in the Gulf 

 of Guinea, on each of which he made a complete collection of 

 birds, and, after touching at Fernando Po, crossed to Cameroon. 

 There he ascended the Peak and made extensive collections, 

 one of his most important discoveries being a remarkable 

 species of Francolin (Francolinus camerunensis) in which the 

 plumage of the two sexes is entirely different. From his last 

 letter to the writer, dated near Victoria 30th of April, 1909, the 

 following passage is extracted : — " I have worked pretty hard 

 on the peak of Cameroon and I do not think I have ever had 

 more difficult collecting. The forest is so thick that I lose 

 nearly half of what I kill. 1 had an appalling time of it on 

 the mountain during the first night of the earthquake. My 

 camp was at an altitude of 8,000 feet. At each boom from 

 the mountain above us the ground danced like a live thins 

 and torrents of stone poured down the hill not half a mile 

 from where we were camped, forest-trees came crashing 

 down and snapped in two like match-sticks, and the cries 

 of terrified monkeys flying before the torrent added, if that 

 was possible, to the dreadful scene. I abandoned my camp 

 at three in the morning and only just in time, for an hour 

 later the place was destroyed/' 



After leaving Cameroon he made his way once more to 

 Lake Chad and finally, as has already been told, started 

 on his last journey through Wadai. 



He now lies beside his brother Claud, his body having 

 been recovered and brought back to Maifoni, a British Post 

 near Lake Chad. 



