30 RETROSPECTS OF AFRICAN EXPLORERS. 



"These days will always be looked back to by me with 

 the greatest pleasure, and when the limbs become enfeebled 

 by time, the mind can still cling to scenes long past, with the 

 pleasure of youth." * 



Mr. Walter M. Kerr, C.E. (Traveller and Explorer). 



" To me there has always been, and I suppose ever will 

 be, a pronounced fascination m the circumstances of a genuine 

 wild life, far away, in the core of some marvellous region, 

 whose land has rarely been trodden by the foot of civilized 

 man, and whose story is unrevealed. " f 



Colonel Parker Gilmore (Traveller, Explorer, and 

 Hunter). 



" Despite the dangers and hardships, a hunter's life, par- 

 ticularly in the interior of Africa, has a wonderful attraction 

 for some people : in fact it asserts such a magnetic influence 

 over many that, having once enjoyed it, ever after they have 

 an irresistible craving to resume it." 



Major H. A. Levison (Traveller, Explorer, and Hunter). 



" Bred up as a soldier and a hunter, since my boyhood, 

 I have been a wanderer over the face of the earth; leading 

 what some of my friends may term a vagabond life, which 

 I do not feel inclined to change, even now that the future 

 looks small in comparison with the past." ** 



The Hon. James Inglis (Indian Hunter and Sports- 

 man). 



" In very truth, I at all events can say that having come 

 through many and varied experiences, having sounded nearly 

 every note of a busy life's vicissitudes, I look back to my 

 happy days of tent life, as a planter and pioneer of settlement, 

 with the most unalloyed feelings of satisfaction, and with a 



* The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, by Sir S. "W. Baker, 1854. 

 t The Far Interior (of Africa) by W. M. Kerr, C.E., 1 886. 

 Days and Nights by the Desert, by Parker Gilmore, 1887. 

 ** The Old Shekarry, by Major H. A. Levison, 1866. 



