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delighted in sounding her praises as a kind intermediary 

 between yourself and their duty." 



And to this day Baker himself is remembered with 

 reverence and admiration by the wild Soudanese whom 

 he quelled. Mr. Jcphson, in the narrative of his visit to 

 the Equatorial Provinces, tells us the men said, " \V<- 

 don't care for Gordon or Emin, Baker is our man. When 

 he fought he was always to the front ; when he fired he 

 never missed ; he was indeed a man! If we did not 

 obey orders, he shook us ; then our teeth dropped out." 



In 1874 Sir Samuel and Lady Baker once more 

 returned to England and settled down at their beautiful 

 country house Sandford Orleigh, near Newton Abbot, 

 which from that time became their home. But the 

 roving spirit was so strong in both of them that they 

 could never stay long in England. After the glorious 

 excitement of shooting big game in Ceylon, India, and 

 Africa, all other sport naturally seemed tame to the 

 mighty hunter, and year after year found him, always 

 accompanied by his faithful wife, with gun and rifle in 

 some far quarter of the globe. Cyprus, Syria, India, 

 Japan, and North America were all visited and the 

 habits of their wild beasts carefully studied. For, like 

 all true sportsmen, Baker as he grew older cared less for 

 killing the game than for finding it and watching its 

 ways. His reluctance to slay wild creatures, even when 

 he had tracked them and had them at his mercy, was 

 particularly noticeable during his shooting tour in North 

 America. When he got among the bison, which he 

 thought the grandest-looking and most striking of all 

 wild animals, he tells us that from the moment he had 



