CHAPTER II. 



RETROSPECTS OF THE EXPERIENCES OF CELEBRATED 

 TRAVELLERS AND HUNTERS. 



Opinions of Captain Cornwallis Harris. Mr. Charles John Ander- 

 sen. Mr. Gordon Gumming. Sir Samuel Baker. Mr. "Walter 

 M. Kerr. Colonel Parker Gilmore. Major H. A. Levison. The 

 Hon. James Inglis. Mr. Charles Darwin. Dr. Georg Schweinfurth. 

 Mr. Richard Ford. 



BEFORE entering upon the consideration of other 

 matters, it may not be amiss to place before the 

 reader some short extracts culled from the pages of 

 different authors, whose works contain paragraphs 

 testifying as to the feelings with which they look back 

 upon their career in the capacity either of travellers 

 or hunters. 



These authors were most of them remarkable men 

 in their day and in their respective spheres, in one or 

 other of these capacities. 



Captain Cornwallis Harris (Bombay Engineers) H.E.I.C.S. 



" To all others I prefer a life of adventure, its very priva- 

 tions constituting an excitement adapted to my humour " 

 " There was something soul-stirring and romantic in wander- 

 ing among these free-born denizens of the desert; realizing 

 as it were a new creation in regions hitherto seldom, if ever, 

 trodden by white man's foot " " But in spite of all hardships 

 and privations, toilsome and tedious as our journey frequently 

 was, across deserts of utterly hopeless sterility, we were more 

 than amply repaid by the unparalleled magnificence of the 



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