Vlii PREFACE. 



Livingstone and Stanley had, then detail becomes 

 interesting ; but when a man has only personal 

 adventure to communicate, why the less of detail 

 the better. 



Thus encouraged, the Author put certain ex- 

 periences into shape, in the hope that they might 

 interest sportsmen and travellers, and would ask 

 his readers to charitably overlook the faults of 

 style and diction. 



