28 RETROSPECTS OF CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS. 



sport we enjoyed, and I can safely aver that some of the 

 happiest days of my existence have been passed in the wilds 

 of Africa. They form a passage in my life which time can 

 never efface from the tablet of my recollection a green spot 

 in memory's waste, to which in after years I shall ever revert 

 to with intense and unabating pleasure." * 



Charles John Andersen (Swedish Traveller, Explorer, and 



Naturalist). 



(Writing of himself in the third person.) 



" It is more than probable that his career as an explorer 

 and pioneer to civilization and commerce, is terminated. Still 

 he would fain hope his humble exertions may not be without 

 their fruits. When he first arrived in Africa, he generally 

 travelled on foot, regardless of the heat. Indeed, he was 

 wont to vie with the natives in endurance but now, owing 

 to the severe hardships he has undergone, his constitution is 

 undermined, and the foundation of a malady laid, that it is 

 feared he will carry with him till his death. Yet such is the 

 perseverance of human nature, that did circumstances permit, 

 he would return to this life of trial and privation." f 



(And so he did return, and passed, as we have already 

 stated, some twenty-five years of his life travelling in 

 Africa, and finally died and was buried in the wilder- 

 ness, July 5, 1867.) 



Roualeyn Gordon Gumming of Altyre (African Tra- 

 veller and Hunter). 



" During the many years I spent in the wilderness, my 

 waggon was my only home. Even this I often deserted, 



* Wild Sports of Southern Africa (in 1836 and '37), by Captain 

 Cornwallis Harris, 3rd Edit., 1841, pp. 284-5. 



j Lake Ngami, or Explorations and Discoveries during Four Years' 

 Wandering in the Wilds of South-Western Africa, by Charles John 

 Andersen, 2nd Edit., 1856 concluding paragraph of Preface, p. v. 



See, Notes of Travel in South Africa, by C. J. Andersen. Edited 

 after his death by L. Lloyd, 1875, p. 335. 



