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THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN 
COUNDNIES: 
CEA hE Kk. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
HEN I left Philadelphia in the summer of 1893, 
I was by no means unaccustomed to endure physi- 
cal labor and hardship. Many a sporting trip in different 
parts of the world had taught me what to expect under 
most diverse conditions. The keen love of sport and 
adventure that is innate in most of the Anglo-Saxon race 
had always prompted me to go into the remotest corners 
of the earth, and I suppose it was my seven years’ medical 
training in America and Europe which taught me never to 
lose a chance of doing scientific work when it presented 
itself. An exploring expedition offered me an oppor- 
tunity for gratifying all my desires and ambitions. 
My good friend Dr. William Lord Smith, of Massachu- 
setts, with whom I had just been fishing and shooting in 
Norway, was contemplating a shooting trip in Somaliland; 
so I joined him, with the idea that this preliminary journey 
would give me the requisite knowledge of the natives and 
beasts of burden that I intended taking with me when 
I made my exploring expedition. 
We had splendid sport, killing six lions, besides many 
elephants, rhinoceroses, and other big game. But what 
I valued most was that I was enabled to form my plans for 
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