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Derby of 1862 ; of Hannah, the heroine of the Oaks and St 

 Leger in 1871 ; of Favonius, who won the Derby in 1871 ; of 

 Cremorne, the winner of the Derby in the following year ; and 

 of a specimen of the now extinct quagga. I need hardly point 

 to the immense value of such historical portraits. Mr Frank 

 Haes is a prominent figure in the photographic world, by 

 whom he is greatly respected and liked. The two Mr Dixons 

 (father and son), Mr Clarence Hailey, Major J. Fortune Nott, 

 Mr Sherborn, and Mr Gambier Bolton have done much to 

 encourage the public taste for the photography of animals. Mr 

 Medland has been very happy in his instantaneous work in the 

 same direction. In Germany, the name of Anschiitz is best 

 known ; in France, that of Delton. 



As the winter was coming on apace, and as neither of us 

 cared to become laid up with influenza or any of the other 

 seasonable complaints, we completed our arrangements for 

 our long talked-of trip to South Africa, took our passage in 

 the good ship Dunottar Castle, and left Southampton towards 

 the end of November 1 891, bound for Cape Town. As an 

 old traveller by the P. and O., French Mail, and many other 

 lines, I must say that the accommodation and food on this 

 Castle steamer left nothing to be desired. We had a 

 pleasant lot of passengers, including the Ward-Vernon 

 theatrical troupe, and an English cricket team, ' run ' by Mr 

 Edwin Ashe of Richmond and Mr W. W. Read, the well- 

 known Surrey amateur. The team consisted of Messrs 

 Reid, Murdoch, Ferris, and Brann, and the professionals, Alec 

 Hearne, G. G. Hearne, J. Hearne, Chatterton, Brockwell, 

 Harry Wood, Martin, Pougher, Ayres, and Leeney. As this 

 tour was managed on purely commercial lines, and as all the 

 members of the team came out first class, it was understood 

 that Jack was as good as his master. Read, Murdoch, and 

 Ferris naturally tried to draw, between promateurs and pros., 

 that imaginary line of social demarcation which is recognised 

 only in the cricket world. Relations would have been over- 

 strained on several occasions, had not Mr Ashe, with the con- 



