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THE sporting tour of which Mr. Myers gives the narrative in this volume was made at the same time as that described by the Earl of Mayo in the work which we recently noticed. Indeed the two parties started together, and their work lay in regions not far distant from each other. Mr. Myers and his party were much more fortunate than the Earl's party. They did not meet with so many hindrances, and were much more fortunate in the number and variety of animals that came in the way of their rifles. The region to which Mr. Myers's work refers is on the borders of Abyssinia and Egypt, and has been already made familiar to English readers by Sir Samuel Baker in his “Nile Tributaries.” Mr. Myers simply pretends to tell of his sporting adventures, and therefore we have no reason to complain if he adds little to our knowledge of the country of the Hamran Arabs. He writes in an unpretentious style, and his work will be found interesting by the general reader, and specially so by those who love sport. It contains photographs of some of the trophies brought home, arranged by Ward and Co.; they give a good idea of the variety of animal life to be met with in this part of the Soudan.
Life with the Hamran Arabs.
An account of a Sporting Tour of some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan during the winter of 1874–5. By Arthur R. Myers., Surgeon, Coldstream Guards. With Photographs. (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876.)
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Life with the Hamran Arabs . Nature 14, 190 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014190a0
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