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See also:SELOUS, See also:FREDERICK See also:COURTNEY (1851- ) , See also:British explorer and See also:hunter, was See also:born in See also:London on the 31st of See also:December 1851, and was educated at See also:Rugby and in See also:Germany. His love for natural See also:history led to the resolve to study the ways of See also:wild animals in their native haunts. Going to See also:South See also:Africa when he was nineteen he travelled from the Cape to Matabeleland, reached See also:early in 1872, and was granted permission by Lobengula to shoot See also:game anywhere in his dominions. From that date until 189o, with a few brief intervals spent in See also:England, Selous hunted and explored over the then little-known regions See also:north of the See also:Transvaal and south of the See also:Congo See also:basin, See also:shooting elephants, and See also:collecting specimens of all kinds for museums and private collections. His travels added largely to the knowledge of the See also:country now known as See also:Rhodesia. He made valuable ethnological investigations, and throughout his wanderings—often among See also:people who had never previously seen a See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:man—he maintained cordial relations with the Kaffir chiefs and tribes, winning their confidence and esteem, notably so in the See also:case of Lobengula. In 1890 Selous entered the service of the British South Africa See also:Company, acting as See also:guide to the See also:pioneer expedition to Mashonaland. Over 400 M. of road were constructed through a country of See also:forest, See also:mountain and swamp, and in two and a See also:half months Selous took the See also:column safely to its destination. He then went See also:east to Manica, concluding arrangements there which brought the country under British See also:control. Coming to England in December 1892 he was awarded the Founder's See also:medal of the Royal See also:Geographical Society "in recognition of his extensive explorations and surveys," of which he gave a See also:summary in " Twenty Years in Zambesia" (Geo. Journ. vol. i., 1893). He returned to Africa to take See also:part in the first See also:Matabele See also:War (1893), being wounded during the advance on See also:Bulawayo. While back in England he married, but in See also:March 1896 was again settled with his wife on an See also:estate in Matabeleland when the native See also:rebellion See also:broke out. He took a prominent part in the fighting which followed, and published an See also:account of the See also:campaign entitled See also:Sunshine and See also:Storm in Rhodesia (1896). On the restoration of See also:peace Selous settled in England. He continued, however, to make shooting and See also:hunting expeditions—visiting See also:Asia See also:Minor, See also:Newfoundland, the See also:Canadian Rockies and other parts of the See also:world. In none of his expeditions was his See also:object the making of a " big bag," but as a hunter-naturalist and slayer of See also:great game he ranks with the most famous of the world's sportsmen.
Besides the See also:works mentioned he published A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (1881, 5th ed., 1907), Travel and See also:Adventure in South-East Africa (1893), See also:Sport and Travel, East and See also:West (1900), See also:Recent Hunting Trips in British North See also:America (1907), See also:African Nature Notes and Reminiscences (1908), a valuable addition to the knowledge of African See also:fauna, and made numerous contributions to The Geographical See also:Journal, the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field and other See also:journals.
End of Article: SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTNEY (1851- )
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