James E. Homans, editor

“ There is in Africa a wonderfully varied range of interesting animals. Most of the desirable ones could be easily introduced into our own Southwest. They would multiply where our own domestic animals cannot live. Vast tracts of our lonely deserts could be teeming with life interesting, beautiful, harmless, very useful for food and leather, displacing not a head of our own cattle or other domestic stock, offering a grand hunting-ground, a true pleasure land to all lovers of animal life. ”

“ In short, Africa is a wonderland of animal life to draw from. We can exclude its venomous reptiles and insects, and take the useful animals that have worked out from a hard environment a way to survive. . . . In the animal world, Nature seems to work out the essential end by means apparently harsh. If it were not for the natural enemies of the great game herds, they would increase so fast that there would be no food supply, and starvation would be their end. ”

“ Burnham went with him and shared her husband's life of travel, danger, and hardship. He arrived at Cape Town and was induced to become the head of the scouts in the Matabele wars and the subjugation of Rhodesia. In recognition of his exceptional services in the Matabele rebellion, the Chartered Company presented him with a campaign medal, a gold watch suitably engraved, and conjointly with two others a tract of land containing 300 square miles in Rhodesia. It was in Rhodesia that Burnham discovered the huge granite ruins of an ancient civilization. ”