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as complete series of all the smaller mammals. We be- 

 lieved that our best work of a purely scientific character 

 would be done with the mammals, both large and small. 



No other hunter alive has had the experience of Selous; 

 and, so far as I now recall, no hunter of anything like his 



A baobab-tree, Mombasa 

 From a photograph by Kermit Roosn'elt 



experience has ever also possessed his gift of penetrating 

 observation joined to his power of vivid and accurate nar- 

 ration. He has killed scores of lion and rhinoceros and 

 hundreds of elephant and buffalo; and these four animals 

 are the most dangerous of the world's big game, when 

 hunted as they are hunted in Africa. To hear him tell of 

 what he has seen and done is no less interesting to a nat- 

 uralist than to a hunter. There were on the ship many 



