The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-01-26
A LIFE OF ADVENTURE.
End Of Sir Samuel Bakers Career
His War on Slavery in the
Soudan.

BAKER, the well-knOwu African eX-
ploror and the chief of the expedi-
ton to suppress the slave trade in
Central Africa from 1869 to 1874,
died to-day at Newton Abbott.
Samuel White Baker was born
June \, 1921, the son of a country
gentleman in Worcestershire. The
propensity for adventure, which is
certainly stronger among the coun-
try gentlemen Of England than any
other class Of men in the world who
have equal means and ample leisure
to- cultivate il, asserted itself early
in him. He was only y when he
undertook, with his brother, to
establish at Newera, Ella, about 100
miles from Ceylon, model farm"
Here Baker roamed and shot and
tished, aud possibly farmed a little.
and most successful sportsmen in
the world, al excellent horsemau
and wonderful shot. Before he left
Ceylon he was Injured to every sort
of bodily fatigue and exposure, and
this preparation, as much as the
natural vigor Of his constitution,
was what enabled him afterward to
survive hardships which had not
| fallen To the lot OF a dozen men TO
overcome.
The story OF his adventures in
Ceylon he told in The Rifle and
Hound in Ceylon," which was pub
lished in London in 1853. aud in his
Eight Years Wandering" publish
ed in 1855.
The real work Of his life began in
1861, when he turned his face up the
Nile in the hope Of meeting at its
source Spoke aud Grant. But on
the threshold OF his expedition he
found a stumbling block in his
ignorance Of Arabic, and the rascal.
ity Of everybody about him who
spoke it. To remove it he devoted
nearly year to a journey into
Abyssinia with the triple object Of
learning Arabic, eAplorinR:the Nile
tributaries Of Abyssinia, aud finding
sport. All these three things he did,
and this story is told in "The Nile
Tributaries Of Abyssinia and the
Sword Hunters Of the Hamran
hfaos.
ne tound that the constant sources
Of the Nile must be the great equa.
torial lakes, one Of which he was
afterward the first civilized man to
embark upon, but that the sources
Oh the 'rrigations were the tributary
torrents OF Abyssinia. He found Ia
Abyssinia also the paradise II port,
anu III me hamran Ara me might
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