24 THE PLEISTOCENE AGE [ch. i 



There was one other bit of impedimenta, less usual 

 for African travel, but perhaps almost as essential for 

 real enjoyment even on a hunting trip, if it is to be of 

 any length. This was the " pigskin library," so called 

 because most of the books were bound in pigskin. 

 They were carried in a light aluminium and oilcloth 

 case, which, with its contents, weighed a little less than 

 sixty pounds, making a load for one porter. Including 

 a few volumes carried in the various bags, so that I 

 might be sure always to have one with me, and 

 " Gregorovius," read on the voyage outward, the list 

 was as printed in Appendix F. 



It represents in part Kermit's taste, in part mine ; 

 and, I need hardly say, it also represents in no way all 

 the books we most care for, but merely those which, for 

 one reason or another, we thought we should like to 

 take on this particular trip. 



I used my Whitman tree army saddle and my army 

 field-glasses ; but, in addition, for studying tlie liabits of 

 the game, I carried a telescope given me on the boat by 

 a fellow traveller and big-game hunter, an Irish Hussar 

 Captain from India — and incidentally I am out in my 

 guess if this same Irish Hussar Captain be not worth 

 watching should his country ever again be engaged in 



Lady Lugard. (" A Tropical Depeiidency.") 



Sir Clement L. Hili,, K.C.B., M.P. (Late Head of the African 



Department, Foreign Office.) 

 Sir H. Seton-Karr, M.P., C.M.G. (" My Sporting Holidays.") 

 Cafiain Boyd Alexander. (" From the Niger to the Nile.") 

 Sir J. Kirk, K.C.B., G. C.M.G. (Dr. Livingstone's companion, 



1858-64.) 



MORETON FrEWEN, Es(i. 



The Earl of Warwick. 



P. L. Sclater, Esq., D.Sc, Ph.D. (Late Secretary Zoological 



Society.) 

 Colonel J." H. Patterson, D.S.O. (" The Tsavo Lion.") 



