8 DIED IN THE WILDERNESS. 



wilds of South Africa, and finally died * in the course 

 of his journeyings through the desert, worn out by 

 wounds and disease, and was buried in the pathless 

 wilderness, no man knows where. 



Then we have the case of Dr. Edward Schnitzer 

 (Emin Pasha), the late renowned Austrian explorer and 

 scientist, who, after being rescued from captivity by 

 Mr. Stanley, though broken down in health and almost 

 blind, insisted upon again returning, alone and un- 

 attended by white companions, to unknown regions in 

 Central Africa, where, it is said on good authority, he 

 was at last killed, and even eaten, together with his 

 native followers, by the wild tribes whose territories 

 he was traversing, f 



In every part of the world, wherever an unexplored 

 region exists, we find the same strange fascination 

 seeming to attract the adventurer to renewed efforts, 

 whether it be among the frozen regions of the icy 

 seas, or the burning sands of the African or Australian 

 deserts. Everywhere the attractions of the Wilderness 

 seem to retain their constant hold upon the human 

 mind, and to draw the wanderer, again and again, 

 into revisiting them. 



Nor can this predilection be regarded as unnatural, 

 or one which ought to be censured. Scientifically 

 speaking, it can hardly be doubtful that it has been 



* He died of fever and dysentery, after wounds, in his waggon, in 

 the Ovampo wilderness of South Africa, July 1867, and was buried in 

 the desert, the natives refusing to allow the body to be interred near 

 their Kraals. See p. 335, ftotes of Travel in South Afrz'cabyC.J. 

 Andersen (Edited, after his death, by L. Lloyd, with a biographical 

 sketch). 



f See London Times of Sept. 5, 1893: Account of Emin Pasha's 

 murder, given on the authority of the missionary Mr. A. T. Swann, of 

 the London Missions Staff. 



