In the early part of 1879 he returned to Potchefstroom, whence despite the disaffection of the Boers he reached the Zambesi district of the interior, trekking along the Great Marico river and up the Limpopo. Towards the end of 1878 he went out to South Africa in search of big game, and hunted for a few weeks on the skirts of the Kalahari desert. In that year he went by way of Ceylon and Singapore to Borneo, where he was the first to discover the black pern, a kind of honey-buzzard, and he returned home with a fine collection of birds, butterflies, and beetles. Leonard Schmitz at the International College, Isleworth, and subsequently read for the army, but in 1877 βhe decided to devote himself to travel. After elementary education at Scottish schools, Jameson was in 1868 placed under Dr. His mother was Margaret, daughter of James Cochrane of Glen Lodge, Sligo. 1856 at the Walk House, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, his father, Andrew Jameson, a land-agent, being the son of John Jameson of Dublin. β JAMESON, JAMES SLIGO (1856β1888), naturalist and African traveller, was born on 17 Aug.
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