RETROSPECTS OF CELEBRATED HUNTERS. 2Q 



and alone, or attended by savages, proceeded on distant 

 hunting expeditions, leaving my few followers encamped round 

 my luggage. Days and nights have I passed in my solitary 

 hunting hole, near some drinking place, watching the majestic 

 carriage of the lion, the sagacious actions of the elephant, 

 and the curious instincts of the countless varieties of game 

 that have passed within a few yards of me, unaware of the 

 proximity of man." * 



" As I rode along, in the intense excitement of the chase 

 I felt a glad feeling of unrestrained freedom, which was 

 common to me during my career in Africa, and notwith- 

 standing the many days and nights of toil and hardship 

 which I afterwards encountered, I shall ever refer to those 

 times as by far the brightest and happiest of my life." f 



Sir Samuel Baker (Traveller, Hunter and Explorer). 



(One of the discoverers of the sources of the Nile and 

 afterwards appointed, Feb. 1870, Governor- General of the 

 Soudan by Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt). 



" The Bivouac in the wilderness has many charms, there 

 is a complete independence. The sentries are posted, and 

 the animals picketed and fed, and the fires arranged in a 

 complete circle around the entire party, men, animals, and 

 luggage, all being within the fiery ring the sentries alone 

 being on the outside." 



"There is a peculiar delight, which passes all description, 

 in feeling thoroughly well-strung, mentally and physically, with 

 a good rifle in your hand, stalking quietly through a fine 

 country, on the look-out for anything no matter what." ** 



* Five Years of a Winter's Life (1843 to 1848) in the Far Interior 

 of South Africa, by Roualeyn Gordon Gumming of Altyre, 1850, Vol. i 

 concluding paragraph of Preface. 



f Ibid. Vol. i, p. 63. 



The Albert Nyanza, by Sir Samuel W. Baker, 1866. 



** Eight Years in Ceylon, by Sir S. W. Baker, 1855. 



