Excerpt from In Unknown Africa: A Narrative of Twenty Months Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and Among New Tribes I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to all those who helped to make my way smooth, or to whose assistance whatever success the present book may enjoy is greatly due. Chief among the former I reckon the Hon. Walter Rothschild, who not only procured me permission which greatly increased the zoological interest of the journey, but also rescued the most interest ing portion of my collection from destruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.