title: The Bafut Beagles
author: Gerald Malcolm Durrell
description: A collecting expedition to the Cameroons, where with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs he captured almost everything from flying mice to booming squirrels.
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  ## The Bafut Beagles
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Gerald Durrell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Gerald Durrell's adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and
  anecdote mark him as a rare bird indeed.
  
  
  In The Bafut Beagles he describes a collecting expedition to the Cameroons,
  where, with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs,
  he captured almost everything from flying mice to booming squirrels. The
  unconscious humour of a supercilious toad or a hypocritical chimpanzee is only
  surpassed by the electric charm of the convivial Fon of Bafut himself.
  
  
  There are not many travel books with a more natural sense of humour.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## THE BAFUT BEAGLES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## In Which We Done Come
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Cross River picks its way down from the mountains of the Cameroons, until
  it runs sprawling and glittering into the great bowl of forest land around
  Mamfe. After being all froth, waterfalls, and ea