SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTNEY (1851- )

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SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTNEY (1851- ) , British explorer and hunter, was born in London on the 31st of December 1851, and was educated at Rugby and in Germany. His love for natural history led to the resolve to study the ways of wild animals in their native haunts. Going to South Africa when he was nineteen he travelled from the Cape to Matabeleland, reached early in 1872, and was granted permission by Lobengula to shoot game anywhere in his dominions. From that date until 189o, with a few brief intervals spent in England,

Selous

SELOUS, FREDERICK
COURTNEY
- COURTNEY, LEONARD HENRY COURTNEY, BARON
(1851- )

hunted and explored over the then little-known regions north of the Transvaal and south of the Congo basin,

shooting

SHOOTING

elephants, and collecting specimens of all kinds for museums and private collections. His travels added largely to the knowledge of the country now known as Rhodesia. He made valuable ethnological investigations, and throughout his wanderingsoften among people who had never previously seen a white manhe maintained cordial relations with the Kaffir chiefs and tribes, winning their confidence and esteem, notably so in the case of Lobengula. In 1890

Selous

SELOUS, FREDERICK
COURTNEY
- COURTNEY, LEONARD HENRY COURTNEY, BARON
(1851- )

entered the service of the British South Africa Company, acting as guide to the

pioneer

PIONEER

expedition to Mashonaland. Over 400 M. of road were constructed through a country of forest, mountain and swamp, and in two and a half months Selous took the column safely to its destination. He then went

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

to Manica, concluding arrangements there which brought the country under British

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

. Coming to England in December 1892 he was awarded the Founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society "in recognition of his extensive explorations and surveys," of which he gave a summary in " Twenty Years in Zambesia" (Geo. Journ. vol. i., 1893). He returned to Africa to take part in the first Matabele War (1893), being wounded during the advance on Bulawayo. While back in England he married, but in March 1896 was again settled with his wife on an estate in Matabeleland when the native rebellion broke out. He took a prominent part in the fighting which followed, and published an account of the campaign entitled Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia (1896). On the restoration of peace Selous settled in England. He continued, however, to make

shooting

SHOOTING

and hunting expeditionsvisiting Asia

Minor

Newfoundland

NEWFOUNDLAND

, the Canadian Rockies and other parts of the world. In none of his expeditions was his object the making of a " big bag," but as a hunter-naturalist and slayer of great game he ranks with the most famous of the world's sportsmen.
Besides the works mentioned he published A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (1881, 5th ed., 1907), Travel and Adventure in South-

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Africa (1893), Sport and Travel, East and West (1900),

Recent

RECENT

Hunting Trips in British North America (1907), African Nature Notes and Reminiscences (1908), a valuable addition to the knowledge of African fauna, and made numerous contributions to The Geographical Journal, the Field and other journals.

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