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This was the "Pigskin Library," so called because most 

 of the books were bound in pigskin. They were carried 

 in a light aluminum and oil-cloth case, which, with its con- 

 tents, weighed a little less than sixty pounds, making a 

 load for one porter. Including a few volumes carried in 

 the various bags, so that I might be sure always to have one 

 with me, and Gregorovius, read on the voyage outward, 

 the list was as printed in Appendix F. 



It represents in part Kermit's taste, in part mine; and, 

 I need hardly say, it also represents in no way all the books 

 we most care for, but merely those which, for one reason 

 or another, we thought we should like to take on this par- 

 ticular trip. 



I used my Whitman tree army saddle and my army 

 field-glasses; but, in addition, for studying the habits of 

 the game, I carried a telescope given me on the boat by a 

 fellow-traveller and big-game hunter, an Irish hussar cap- 

 tain from India and incidentally I am out in my guess if 

 this same Irish hussar captain be not worth watching 

 should his country ever again be engaged in war. I had 



F. C. SELOUS, ESQ. ("A Hunter's Wanderings," etc.) 



COUNT BLUCHER. 



LIEUT. -CoL. C. DELME RADCLIFFE. C.M.G., M.V.O. 



MAURICE EGERTON*, ESQ. 



LORD DESBOROUGH, C.V.O. 



CAPTAIN M. MCNEILL. 



CLAUDE H. TRITTON, ESQ. 



J. TURNER-TURNER, ESQ. 



HON. L. W. ROTHSCHILD, M.P. 



RT. HON. SIR E. GREY, BART., M.P. (Foreign Secretary and author of "Dry 



Fly Fishing.") 



SIR M. DE C. FINDLAY, C.M.G. (British Minister at Dresden.) 

 C. PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, ESQ., F.R.G.S. ("Sport in the Caucasus.") 

 RT. HON. SIR G. O. TREVELYAN, BART., D.C.L. ("The American Revolution.") 

 WARBURTON PIKE, ESQ. 

 SIR WM. E. GARSTIX, G.C.M.G. 



His GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G. ("A Great Estate.") 

 HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF BEDFORD. 

 LORD BRASSEY, G.C.B., M.V.O. (Owner of The Sunbeam.} 

 HON. T. A. BRASSEY. (Editor of the Naval Annual.) 

 RHYS WILLIAMS, ESQ. 

 MAJOR-GEN. A. A. A. KINLOCH, C.B. ("Large Game in Tliilx-t.") 



