| Show SELOUS A HARDY EXPLORER while traveling in the wilds ot of africa for years yeara he always alway slept on the attic ground mr selous a distinguished hunter and explorer was in england and telling something of his methods when in the wilds ot of africa how little he be cared tor for personal comfort may be gathered from hla his remark that ho he over thought of taking any sort of yance even to the extent ot of a for ease case by day or rest at ni night bt and would not be encumbered b bya a tent for weeks together year ter after year he be slept on the ground c covered ored only by something in the ape of a blanket asked if t were any reptiles to disturb repozo under suph such circumstances mr selous seloma replied that although venomous snakes were to be found bites from them were very rare and in all ills his experience he had never known anybody either native or european killed by a snake bite in mashona land in fact ho he said you run more risk of being killed by an omal bus blis in ili london streets street than we do by venomous snakes in african forests 1 |
