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FAMOUS HUNTER’S TRIP UP THE 
NILE. 
Reuter’s Agency is informed that Mr. F. O. 
Selous, the well-known hunter, will leave London 
on the 20th inst. on his journey to the Bahr-el- 
Ghazal and expects to be absent until June. Mr. 
Selous will proceed to Port Said, where he will 
tranship to Port Sudan at which place he wiil 
disembark and travel by train to Khartoum, 
going afterwards by Nile steamer to Lado, where 
work will commence. After getting together his 
natives he will work his way westwards and to the 
south of the Bahr-el-Ghazel in search cf the 
animals which form the object of his journey. 
The explorer has been sent out by the Natural 
History Museum in search of the. Sudanese race 
of the Derbian Eland. Although well known for 
a long time to naturalists, specimens having been 
shot by officers, the National Museum wishes for 
a complete specimen, which at present it does 
not possess. Mr. Selous must conclude his hunt¬ 
ing bv the beginning of May as the rains will 
then commence and, although he may endeavour 
to get some specimens on the Nile itself, he will 
return to Khartoum early in that month. 
| Considerable difficulties are anticipated in ob¬ 
taining the services of natives who are wild and 
unaccustimed to this class of work. The country 
itself is parched and arid and the hot and ener¬ 
vating character of the climate will make Mr. 
Selous’ task by_ no means easy. Mr. Selous will 
be unaccompanied by any white men. 
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