Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers

Perhaps Selous' chief success as a hunter lay in his untiring energy and fearless intention to gain some desired object. He brought the same force into play in pursuit of a bull...

When the time came for Fred to go to Rugby both Mr. Darnell and Mr. Hill advised Mr. Wilson, to whose house it was proposed to send him, not on any account to have a boy whose e...

There are few of us whose early aspirations and subsequent acts are not influenced by literature. Some book comes just at the time of our life when we are most impressionable an...

AS soon as Selous and his wife returned home at the end of 1896 he finished off the notes he had made concerning the second Matabele War, and delivered them to Rowland Ward & Co...

On March 20th, 1908, President Roosevelt wrote to Selous and announced his intention of taking a long holiday in Africa as soon as his Presidency of the United States came to an...

In May, 1914, Selous went to Texel Island, on the coast of Holland, where he took a few eggs and enjoyed watching the Ruffs, Avocets, Godwits, Turnstones, and Spoonbills. In Jun...

Selous had been hunting something all his life, yet he never seems to have lost sight of the possibility that a little fellow with a bow and arrow might one day take a shot at h...

Men of all ages are apt to set up for themselves heroes. It is their instinct to worship exceptional force of character and to follow a leader; but as we survey the tempest of h...

Early in 1889 Selous met Frank Johnson at Bamangwato and was asked by him to act as guide for a gold prospecting expedition to the upper regions of the Mazoe River. As it was th...

The years 1872-1874 were undoubtedly the most strenuous of Selous' life, for after his return to South Africa in 1876 he used the horse in the greater part of his journeys in th...

Like all big game hunters Selous always dreamed of a land teaming with game where other hunters had not been and scared the game away. He saw by this time that the old hunting-g...

When Selous returned to South Africa in November, 1881, it was with the fixed intention of abandoning his wandering life. The chase of the elephant which, above all wild animals...

During the year 1886 Selous did but little hunting and shooting, though he twice made short visits to Matabeleland both before and after a journey home to England, where he rema...

one, and it may have gone down in the ill-fated 'Persia,' which had mails for East Africa on board. I have not much news to give you, nor much time to write it, as we are now ju...

Selous left England on his last journey on August 10th, 1916, and landed at Mombasa (via the Cape) in September with a draft of 400 new recruits for the 25th Royal Fusiliers. Fi...

In April, 1906, Selous went all the way to Bosnia just to take the nest and eggs of the Nutcracker, and those who are not naturalists can scarcely understand such excessive enth...

Rabbit; the Cervidæ (The Deer family); the Bovidæ (the Oxen), and the Cetaceæ (Whales). With 23 Photogravures from Drawings by the Author, H. GRÖNVOLD, and E. S. HODGSON; 12 Col...

Untiring energy as a hunter--His modest requirements--Rifles--A story of his practical nature--Sir Alfred Pease on Selous as a hunter and naturalist--The average of shots requir...

Selous' restlessness and love of travel--Roosevelt on the charms of travel--Criticism of travel books--Selous as an egg collector--Second visit to Asia Minor--Short excursions a...

Cupid at work--Engagement to Miss Maddy--Intends to visit America--Trouble in Matabeleland--History of Matabele raids--The position in 1893--Hunters enter Matabeleland--Selous r...

Expedition to the Mazoe river--Reaches Tete--The extortions of Maziwa--Mapping the new country--Discovery of Mt. Hampden--Trouble with the Portuguese--The importance of Mashunal...

The influence of literature--Books on Africa--Thomas Baines--Baldwin--Selous lands in Africa--Leaves Port Elizabeth--Sport on the road--Arrival at Kimberley--A short expedition...

Roosevelt's expedition to Africa--Selous' arrangements--Selous joins Roosevelt at Naples--Goes to the Northern Gwas N'yiro with MacMillan--Fails to obtain lions--Accident to Mr....

Visit to Texel Island--Intends to make expedition to the Bahr-el-Ghazal--Frustrated by the war--Selous' patriotism--Efforts to serve--Lord Kitchener thinks him "too old"--Col. D...

Intends to visit the Mashukulumbwe country--Expedition into the northern Kalahari--The Botletlie river--Adventure with lions--The difficulties of the Thirstland--The Mababe flat...

Return to South Africa--Intends to be an ostrich farmer--Goes north again--The snake-stone--Collecting specimens of big game and butterflies--A bold lioness--Visit to Khama--Lio...

He enters Rugby--Love of books of travel--Life at Rugby--Rugby football in the old days--"Butler's leap"--Excursions in Natural History--Adventures out of bounds--The Pilton Ran...

Lands again at Algoa Bay--Reaches Matabeleland--Kills a fine lion--George Westbeech--Return to the Diamond Fields--Loses a fine lion--The comparative danger of hunting various w...

Expedition to Mashunaland with Messrs. Jameson, Fountaine and Cooper--A serious accident--Sets out for Barotsiland--Arrival at Wankie's--Extortion by the Batonga chiefs--Monzi--...

The last journey--Arrival at Tanga--German East Africa in 1916--The difficulties of the campaign--Progress by General Smuts--The Royal Fusiliers go to Mikesse--A fearful march--...

A visit to Bosnia--Second expedition to Alaska--Down the Yukon--Up the South Fork of the MacMillan--Caribou, wolf and moose hunting--His sympathetic nature--Account of the MacMi...

Ancient and modern heroes--The character of Selous--The Selous family--Edmund Selous' notes--An artistic and ancient race--Selous' parents--Family life--Selous' father--Some of...

With 21 Photogravures by the Author, H. GRÖNVOLD, G. E. LODGE, and from Photographs by D. ENGLISH; 19 Coloured Plates by ARCHIBALD THORBURN and G. E. LODGE; and 33 Uncoloured Pl...