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to love — manly and open-hearted, firm in his friendships, intrepid in 

 spirit, always cheerful, and never daunted by trouble or difficulty. 

 The nobility of his character is reflected in his letters and journals, 

 while his ardent love of nature in her wilder and less familiar aspects 

 shows itself in his choice of a life of adventure and travel. . . . The 

 editor has been well advised in printing as they were written the 

 extracts from the letters and note-books of his brother, for these 

 wayside jottings possess a freshness and directness which give them 

 a distinctive charm. 



Press Notices of the Second Edition. 



ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE. 



The moment is opportune for the reissue of Mr. Frank Oates's 

 Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. As a book of travel it remains, 

 as it is likely to remain for some years, a standard work. The journal 

 is entertaining reading in its best form ; it is informing, and yet does 

 not seem to be so. The general reader has no need to be frightened 

 by the recollection that Mr. Oates was a naturalist ; he will find he is 

 the gainer by many acute observations which might have escaped the 

 ordinary note-taking globe-trotter. At the same time the book has a 

 valuable scientific interest in its Appendices . . . and altogether the 

 pictures of strange African birds, beasts, and flora, are a most 

 attractive addition to an important and interesting volume. 



NATURE. 



The late Mr. Frank Oates was a fine specimen of the English 

 traveller, devoted to the pursuit of natural history, and gifted with 

 indomitable perseverance and pluck. . . . The narrative must always 

 remain of value as a simple record of a naturalist's journey, and the 

 maps of the route are laid down with a fidelity and minuteness not to 

 be exceeded if the traveller had been on a cycling tour instead of in 

 the wilds of Matabele Land, while the lapse of time since the publica- 

 tion of the first edition has enabled the authors of the various 

 Appendices to give additional information, to correct errors, and 

 generally to bring their work up to date. Several species unde- 

 termined in the first edition have now been identified and described, 

 new plates have been added, and the results, as now given to the 

 public, form a very material and valuable contribution to our know- 

 ledge of the natural history of Southern Africa, with the development 

 of which the name of Frank Oates will be for ever connected. 



