Chapter X

1896-1907

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 at
home--Goes with his wife to the Rockies--Wapiti
hunting--Roosevelt on past and present hunting in N.
America--Hunting chamois in Transylvania--Selous on the second
Boer War--An Imperialist, but always fair--His sorrow as to the
causes of the war--Personal knowledge of the Boers--An
honourable foe--Their ignorance and good qualities--Selous'
views on their unjust treatment--Letter to the
"Speaker"--Roosevelt on the Boers--Birds'-nesting on the
Danube--Hunting moose in Canada--Newfoundland caribou hunting on
the railway--A poor sport--Goes into the interior--Too late for
the migration--Second visit to Newfoundland--A successful
expedition--Third visit to Asia Minor--First expedition to East
Africa--A big game paradise--Birds'-nesting at home--First
expedition to Alaska--Visit to the Ogilvy Mountains--Up the
North Fork of the MacMillan--Kills a bull moose--Osborn's
caribou--A great moose--Bad weather--Third trip to
Newfoundland--A wet season--King George IVth Lake--A bad year
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CHAPTER XI
1906-1907

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 MacMillan
trip--Again visits Asia Minor--Financial depression--Arthur
Neumann--Some details of his life--Reindeer hunting in
Norway--African nature notes and reminiscences--Letters from
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