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pilation. To the chapters on Elephants he has 

 appended a very interesting account of the Duke 

 of Edinburgh's Elephant Hunt in South Africa. 

 This account he has ventured to give, not only 

 because it records the latest, hut perhaps the only 

 hunt of the kind in which a Royal prince of England 

 has ever been engaged, at least in recent times, and 

 not the less so on account of the real pluck and 

 spirit, characteristic of his race, which the adventure 

 called forth in him. 



In the chapter on Crocodiles an extract is also 

 given from a work just published by Don Ramon 

 Paez, entitled, * Travels and Adventures in South 

 and Central America," which will not be found in 

 the original French work. 



E. M. 



