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globe. For permission to use various extracts thanks 

 are tendered to Country Life, Ltd. (Big Game Shooting); 

 Messrs. Hurst & Blackett (Lake Ngami or Explorations and 

 Discoveries) ; Longmans, Green & Co. (Eight Years in Ceylon) ; 

 Macmillan & Co. (A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, Nile 

 Tributaries of Abyssinia, and The Malay Archipelago) ; and 

 Mr. John Murray (Livingstone's Missionary Travels and 

 Researches). These extracts alone refer to C. J. Andersonn, 

 Sir Samuel Baker, H. A. Bryden, Major C. S. Cumberland, 



E. D. Cuming, Livingstone, F. C. Selous, and A. R. Wallace. 

 Other well-known writers, e.g., Rev. ]. G. Wood and 



F. T. Bullen, are quoted in various places, but in the 

 course of much general reading, however, the exact source 

 of a quotation may have escaped notice, and must per- 

 force be covered by a general expression of indebtedness. 

 Great care has been taken to avoid inaccuracies, though 

 it is almost impossible that none should have crept in 

 among the many thousands of facts that go to make up 

 the volume. 



