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and threatened mischief Mr. Oates displays all the best qualities of a 

 plucky Englishman, and by patience, tact, and fairplay, makes his way 

 through difficulties that were often disheartening enough. . . . We 

 can only say that if among our explorers, settlers, and governors, there 

 were more men of the stamp of Frank Oates, we should have better 

 reason to pride ourselves on our national repute. 



DUBLIN REVIEW. 



Frank Oates was an enthusiastic naturalist and an ardent hunter — 

 and there is in this volume abundant promise that had he lived he 

 might have been a second Waterton. The story of Mr. Oates's 

 wanderings in his effort to reach the Zambesi, is full of deep interest 

 for the naturalist and hunter, the mere pictures of the graceful 

 antelopes, strangely woven and shaped birds' nests, new varieties of 

 birds — odd in shape, or dazzling in graceful flow of brilliant plumage 

 — inspire a desire to see the fairy land of nature whence they came. 



ATLANTIC MONTHLY. 



The good-breeding and high character of the young naturalist, his 

 honourable ambition, and his untimely fate, render the book more than 

 a record of travel and adventure, for the reader carries a personal 

 regard for the traveller from first to last. 



SCOTSMAN. 



A beautiful and appropriate memorial of a life of singular promise, 

 that fell a victim to an over-ardent devotion to his work. It is impos- 

 sible to read the memoir of Mr. Oates's career, and more particularly 

 his notes of his African journey, without feeling how great a loss his 

 early death was to science, especially to his favourite study of orni- 

 thology, as well as to his family. Science and family affection have 

 united to place such a tribute on his grave as the young naturalist 

 would himself have wished. . . . While, as the Dean of Christ Church 

 writes, it is " grievous to think that so much manly spirit has so soon 

 been quenched," it is pleasant to find that so much of the work accom- 

 plished has been preserved in so worthy a form. 



MANCHESTER EXAMINER. 



A handsome memorial volume of one whose courage and love of 

 enterprise were of no ordinary sort, whose personality seems to have 

 endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, whose life was full 

 of promise of greater performances for the future, and who found his 



