SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER, M.A. F.R.G.S.

GOLD MEDALLIST OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; GRANDE MÉDAILLE D'OR DE
LA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE DE PARIS ;

AUTHOR OF THE "ALBERT N'YANZA GREAT BASIN OF THE NILE,'
""THE NILE TRIBUTARIES
OF ABYSSINIA," "THE RIFLE AND THE HOUND IN CEYLON," EIGHT YEARS'
WANDERINGS IN CEYLON," ETC. ETC.

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LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

823 B17

DEDICATION.

SINCE the publication of the "Albert N'yanza,” and the "Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," I have received numerous letters from boys to whom I was entirely unknown, and who are at this moment unknown to me except through their spontaneous correspondence. Their letters were written in the youthful enthusiasm of the moment, when, having shared in the excitement of our African journeys, they had closed the book, and, full of sympathy, they wrote to me effusions which I prize as the outburst of boyish admiration for a successful struggle with difficulties.

As a proof of the value that I attach to these warm expressions of interest taken by the young in our past adventures, I now dedicate to all boys