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Contents
South African Hunters, Pioneers, and Explorers 7With Thomas Pringle in South Africa 7
Two Lion Hunts 11
Lieutenant Moodie and the enraged Elephant 19
Hunters and Pioneers in British Central Africa 24
The African Adventures of F. C. Selous 28
Captain Lugard and the Slave-raiders 41
The British in Uganda 45
Among the Matabele 48
The British in Matabeleland and Mashonaland – The Fate of Major Wilson 61
Mountain-Climbers and Mountain Climbing 70
Edward Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi 70
The Ascent of Peter Botte 85
The Ascent of Cloudy Mountain, New Guinea 98
W. M. Conway of Mountaineering in the Himalayas 111
Faimali, the Lion-Tamer 117
My First Chamois 129
The Ironclad Bushrangers 140
A Secret of the Solomon Islands 155
Afloat in the ‘Rob Roy’ Canoe 166
At the World’s End with George Borrow 185
Sir William Phips and the Sunken Treasure of Port de la Plata 199
Storming of Badajoz – The Horrors of War 211
A Real Romance of the South Seas 223
A Strange Escape 236
Twenty-Five Degrees Below Zero on Lake Winnipeg 247
A Frenchman’s Account of the Battle of Trafalgar 254
Escape of some English Prisoners from France 267
Paul Jones in the Firth of Forth 281