Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.