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upon his reptile pets, which were a never-failing 

 source of joy and comfort to him. On the other 

 hand he had entered into a new world in his 

 rambles on the veld. He had begun to explore 

 the human period of pre-history. All round 

 about him and conveniently close to his very door 

 he was discovering the implements and other 

 traces of the pre-Bushman inhabitants of South 

 Africa. In 1897 he wrote : " The excitement of 

 finding specimens illustrative of the antiquity of 

 man has given me a fresh impetus in research." 



