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Mr. Selous, a distinguished hunter and explorer, was in England, and telling something of his methods when In the wilds of Africa. How little he cared for personal comfort qiay be gathered from his remark that he Inever thought of taking any sort of ,conveyanoe, even to the extent of a 'hammock for ease by day or rest at 'night, and would not be encumbered jby a tent. Igor weeks together, year 'after year, he slept on the ground, icovered only by something in the 'shape of a blanket. Asked If there were any reptiles to disturb repose under such circumstances, Mr. Selous replied that, although venonTous snakes were to be found, bites from them were very rare, and in all bis experience he had never known anybody, either native or European, killed by a snake bite In Mashonaland. "In fact," he said, "you run 'more risk of being killed by an omnibus In London streets than we do by Venomous^ snakes In African forests."
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