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taste led him in rather an opposite direction, — hunting and travel, — 

 and from his own statement it appears his aspirations were, at a very 

 early period, turned towards Africa. At the age of twenty-two this 

 aspiration became a settled purpose, and he came to England in 

 ] 849, and sold some specimens of Natural History, living and dead, 

 in order to raise the necessary funds. In this very year Livingstone 

 made his journey to Lake N'gami by way of the great Kalahari 

 Desert, and found that to the north of South-Western Africa was a 

 well-watered country abounding in animal and vegetable life. This 

 discovery roused the enthusiasm of young Andersson and many 

 others, more especially Francis Galton, who volunteered to bear 

 Andersson's expenses as well as to keep him company in an ex- 

 pedition similar to that which Livingstone had made with so much 

 success. Andersson and Galton sailed from England in April, 1850, 

 and reached the Cape of Good Hope in the following August. 

 Their first expedition into the interior was from Walwitsh Bay, 

 and appears to have been undertaken with the object of purchasing 

 oxen trained as well to the saddle as the yoke. In this, on the 

 very threshold of their Natural-History campaign, they had a taste 

 of the ordinary concomitants of a wandering life in South-Western 

 Africa — burning heat, extreme thirst, attacks by lions, which either 

 devoured their horses and cattle or drove them to a distance from 

 the encampment. On their return from this experimental trip 

 Andersson had his first personal encounter with the king of beasts : 

 he had lodged a ball in the lion's body ; aware that he was hit, yet 

 by no means disabled, the lion turned about and faced his enemy, 

 who dropped on one knee preparing to give him the second barrel. 

 The lion made his spring, but passed clean over his opponent, 

 leaving him unscathed. A few moments afterwards the lion was 

 found dead near the spot: the first ball had been enough for him. 



After many wearisome and irksome delays, their final start 

 for Lake N'gami was made i^n March, 1851, and in May they reached 

 Ovampoj and made a stay of six weeks, during which Andersson 

 made his observations on the country and its inhabitants, and 

 shortly after Galton succumbed to the toil and troubles of the 

 journey, the obstructions of the natives, the disabled state of the 

 oxen and wagons, and determined on taking the first opportunity 

 of returning to Europe. 



After a fatiguing journey, the travellers arrived at Tunobis on 

 the 3rd of October, and here for the first time Andersson became 



