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estimated as weighing over a thousand pounds, the largest 

 of the forty-three that fell to the rifles (four) of the party 

 during this most successful expedition. The big Ovis 

 montana, with horns measuring over nineteen inches round 

 the base, also belongs to this year, and there are famous 

 Wapiti heads (sixteen of them), as well as a few specially 

 fine American buffalo — all to the credit of these three 

 seasons. These — with the results of the years 1884, 1885, 

 and 1886, also spent in the Rockies, and the African 

 trophies secured during the year 1887 spent in Central 

 Africe, in company with Selous, who was shooting for the 

 British Museum — were exhibited at Earl's Court as the 

 *' Cooper collection," and were acknowledged to be the finest 

 of their respective kinds hitherto shown in England. 



Any notice of Mr. Frank Cooper would be incomplete 

 without a reference to Philip Austin, " shikarri," cricketer, 

 and most devoted adherent. Inseparable from boyhood, 

 when as the son of Mr. Cooper's gamekeeper he had the 

 charge of the boys Percy and Frank on many a fishing 

 excursion, he has since accompanied him on most of his 

 expeditions abroad, and it is to his excellent memory and 

 devotion to " Mester Cooper " that I am indebted for these 

 few details, which the modesty and dislike of " advertise- 

 ment " of the latter were inclined to deny me. 



