class men, these English and Germans; 
both are doing in East Africa a work of 
worth to the whole world; there is ample 
room for both, and no possible cause for 
any but a thoroughly friendly rivalry; and 
it is earnestly to be wished, in the interest 
of both of them, and of outsiders too, that 
their relations will grow, as they ought to 
grow, steadily better—and not only in East 
Africa but everywhere else. 
On the ship, at Naples, we found Selous, 
also bound for East Africa on a hunting 
trip; but he, a veteran whose first hunting 
in Africa was nearly forty years ago, cared 
only for exceptional trophies of a very few 
animals, while we, on the other hand, de¬ 
sired specimens of both sexes of all the spe¬ 
cies of big game that Kermit and I could 
shoot, as well as complete series of all the 
smaller mammals. We believed that our 
best work of a purely scientific character 
would be done with the small mammals. 
No other hunter alive has had the expe¬ 
rience of Selous; and, so far as I now recall, 
no hunter of anything like his experience 
has ever also possessed his gift of pene¬ 
trating observation joined to his power of 
vivid and accurate narration. He has 
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