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(SELOUS alone outstanding-, a unique figure) among- that 

 band of lion-hearted British pioneers who within a lifetime 

 have helped more, probably, than all the politicians 

 towards the transformation and regeneration of the 

 once "Dark Continent." Six months later, alas! gallant 

 Stigand gave his life to the cause of that Continent 

 he had loved. He was killed (October 1919) in one 

 of those recurrent patrols, or "punitive expeditions," 

 against the Dinkas and other savage tribes sad to 



ELEPHANT Cow TEARING UP CANE-GRASS. 



say within a few months of his intended retirement after 

 twenty years' active service in Africa. 



Sir Frederick Jackson wrote me ( J anuary 8th, 1920) : 

 " Did you know Stig-and? I did well, and always 

 regarded him as a Prince among- pioneers and hunter- 

 naturalists. Splendid in physique, tall, and strong as a 

 Samson, yet lithe and not muscle-bound ; he is the 

 only man I ever knew, or heard of, who beat off a 

 wounded lion with his fist while the beast was chawing 

 his left arm. He had had this rough-and-tumble with a 

 lion, two with elephants at different times, once tossed 

 by a rhinoceros. After he had recovered from the lion- 

 mauling, I said to him : ' Now it only remains for 



