ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
I T gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the help I have received from many friends 
and acquaintances in the production of this book. Sir Thomas Sanderson, k.c.b., 
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has revised the proofs for me ; 
and Sir Clement Hill, k.c.m.g., and the African Department of the Foreign Office 
have enabled me to obtain information on various subjects; Mr. Alfred Sharpe, 
H. M. Deputy Commissioner and Consul for British Central Africa, has given me 
from time to time interesting notes, and has taken a number of photographs for the 
special purposes of the book; Mr. J. B. Yule, b.c.a.a., of the North Nyasa district, 
has lent me many of his photographs and has supplied me with information on native 
manners and customs ; Dr. David Kerr Cross, m.b., has allowed me to use his 
valuable notes on Anthropology and the Diseases prevalent among Europeans and 
natives; Mr. P. L. Sclater, f.r.s., Secretary of the Zoological Society, has rendered me 
great help in preparing the chapters on Zoology, to which also Mr. Oldfield Thomas, 
Dr. A. G. Butler, Mr. W. F. Kirby and other officials of the British Museum of Natural 
History, and Mr. W. E. de Winton, F.z.s., have contributed information. Mr. Thiselton 
Dyer, c.m.g., Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, on this occasion (as indeed on all 
others when I have applied to him) has given his assistance with promptness and 
cordiality. Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.z.s. (Principal scientific officer in British Central 
Africa), has supplied me with much interesting information during six years; Mr. J. F. 
Cunningham, Secretary of the British Central Africa Administration, and Mr. Wm. 
Wheeler, Chief accountant to the same, have obtained for me photographs and informa¬ 
tion under many heads ; the Rev. D. C. Ruffele-Scott, b.d. (of the Church of Scotland 
Mission, Blantyre), collected five vocabularies for me : I have found his dictionary of 
the Ci-nyanja (Chi-mananja) language a useful book of reference. The proprietors of 
the Graphic have been very kind in permitting the reproduction in these pages of certain 
drawings which originally appeared in one or other of their journals. Mr. Fred Moir, 
the Secretary to the African Lakes Company, placed his photographs at my disposal and 
helped me in various ways. The Rev. A. G. B. Glossop, m.a., Mr. R. Webb, and Miss 
Palmer, of the Universities Mission, have been particularly kind in obtaining and 
lending photographs. 1 have also derived much information from the notes and 
reports of the late Lieut.-Colonel C. A. Edwards, of Commander Percy Cullen, Captain 
W. H. Manning, and Messrs. J. E. McMaster, A. J. Swann, R. Codrington, H. A. 
Hillier, J. O. Bowhill, the late J. L. Nicoll and Gilbert Stevenson, H. C. McDonald, 
