PREFACE 



It has been my lot to travel over much of 

 the Continent of Africa, and in these pages I have 

 endeavoured to place on record some of my 

 wanderings, to describe the wondrous beauties, 

 scenes of savagery, old-world towns, and hordes 

 of wild men and wild beasts which are still the 

 treasures of the Last Continent. 



For permission to reproduce certain articles 

 and photographs contributed by me to the Star 

 and Illustrated Star, Sunday Post and Observer, 

 Johannesburg, The State, Cape Town, and the 

 African Worid, London, I am indebted to the 

 Editors of these papers. All the photographs 

 appearing in this book were either taken by my 

 native attendants or myself. The only claim 

 I make for the work is that it is an honest attempt 

 to describe the experiences, impressions and 

 sensations of one who has truly felt the all- 

 powerful influence and fascination of Africa in 

 a multitude of highways and byways, from Table 

 Bay to the city of the Pharaohs, and who has 

 found in her bondage a serfdom glorious and 

 strangely easy. 



Johannesburg, 191S 



