or 'the man who swept clean'. This referred to his efforts to eliminate poaching in the reserve, and according to Henri-Alexandre Junod, also referred to the Tsonga people's attitude toward him after he had evicted them from the southern lowveld. Stevenson-Hamilton understood Tsonga language as well as Tsonga culture and was taught hunting skills by the Tsonga, who were expert in hunting big game, such as elephant, rhino, leopard and lion. Skukuza, the main camp in the park and which was formerly called Sabi Bridge, was renamed in honour of him. After his death, "the old men of the kraals, some of whom he had sent to prison for poaching, said: 'A great man has gone'". A bronze statue created by the artist Phil Minnaar can be seen in Skukuza depicting Paul Kruger, Piet Grobler and Stevenson-Hamilton, the founding fathers of the park. The Stevenson-Hamilton library is also situated in Skukuza camp. His legacy also lives on in a books that he authored, namely: Notes on a Journey Through Portuguese East Africa: From Ibo To Lake Nyasa (1909) Animal Life in Africa (1912) – foreword by Theodore Roosevelt The Low-Veld: Its Wildlife and Its People (1929) The Kruger National Park (1932) South African Eden: From Sabi Game Reserve To Kruger National Park (1937) Our South African National Parks (1940) Wild Life in South Africa (1947) The Barotseland Journal of James Stevenson-Hamilton, 1898-1899 (1953) Stevenson-Hamilton is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of African gecko, Lygodactylus stevensoni. References Other sources (to be incorporated) Siyabona Africa, 2011, First Warden.(Accessed 8 October 2011) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson. pp 253–254. 1867 births 1957 deaths 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons officers Scottish emigrants to South Africa Kruger National Park Military personnel from Dublin (city) People educated at Rugby School British Army personnel of the Second Boer War