INSCRIBED AND DATED BY AN OFFICER ATTACHED TO THE PIONEER COLUMN TO MASHONALAND OF 1890.
A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa. Being A Narrative Of Nine Years Spent Amongst The Game Of The Far Interior Of South Africa Containing Accounts Of Explorations Beyond The Zambesi, On The River Chobe, And In The Matabele And Mashuna Countries.
Fontispiece, green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. 19 illustrations fold out map, lists of game shot 1877-1880, index, repair to spine (top) and minor edgeware. Book condition: good.
Inscription reads, 'G.E.Biscoe from his loving son Edward. Oct 1891 on his return from Mashonaland'.
The following is taken from Major Frank Johnson's Book, 'Great Days, the autobiography of an Empire Pioneer,' (p. 152).
I had told Biscoe to take his Naval men and cut the straightest tree he could find, by no means an easy task, when practically the only trees were massasah-growing far from straight. All those present paraded at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 13, all the land claimed by Lo Bengula as described in the Rhodes-Rudd Concession was annexed to the British Empire. Biscoe then hoisted the Union Jack.
Thus it fell to Biscoe to raise the Flag on the site of Salisbury for the first time.
Major Frank Johnson, Commander of the Pioneer Column
Frederick Courteney Selous Intelligence Officer to the Pioneer Column.
Lieutenant Edward. C. Tyndale-Biscoe, Naval Brigade, C Troop, Pioneer Column.
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- Overall Condition: good
- Size: 155 x 230 mm
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