The New International Encyclopædia/Selous, Frederick Courteney

SELOUS, se-lōō′, Frederick Courteney (1851— ). An English hunter and explorer in South Africa. In 1871 he went to South Africa, where, for nineteen years, he was almost continuously in the field, hunting chiefly elephants and earning his living by selling ivory and natural history collections. In 1890 he piloted the pioneer expedition of the British South Africa Company through Mashonaland and he was prominent in the events that brought about the occupancy of all the large territory north of the South African Republic. In 1893 he participated in the first Matabele war. After that time he lived in Surrey, England. His publications are: A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (1881); Travel and Adventure in Southeast Africa (1893); Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia (1896); Sport and Travel, East and West (1900); and various contributions to geographical periodicals.