in valuable suggestions for
the opening up of the continent, including the utilization of the great
lakes as a "Cape to Cairo" connexion. In recognition of his work he was
promoted to the rank of commander, made a Companion of the Bath and
given the gold medal of the Geographical Society. The remainder of
Cameron's life was chiefly devoted to projects for the commercial
development of Africa, and to writing tales for the young. He visited
the Euphrates valley in 1878-1879 in connexion with a proposed railway
to the Persian Gulf, and accompanied Sir Richard Burton in his West
African journey of 1882. At the Gold Coast Cameron surveyed the Tarkwa
region, and he was joint author with Burton of _To the Gold Coast for
Gold_ (1883). He was killed, near Leighton Buzzard, by a fall from
horseback when returning from hunting, on the 24th of March 1894.

A second edition of _Across Africa_, with new matter and corrected
maps, appeared in 1885. A summary of Cameron's great journey, from his
own pen, appears in Dr Robert Brown's _The Story of Africa_, vol. ii.
pp. 266-279 (London, 1893).

CAMERON OF LOCHIEL, SIR EWEN (1629-1719), Scottish Highland chieftain,
was the eldest son of John Cameron and the grandson of Alan Cameron, the
head of the clan Cameron. Having lost his father in infancy he passed
part of his youth with the marquess of Argyll at Inveraray, leaving his
guardian about 1647 to take up his duties as chief of the clan Cameron,
a position in which he succeeded his grandfather. In 1653 Lochiel joined
the earl of Glencairn in his rising on behalf of Charles II., and after
the defeat of this attempt he served the Royalist cause by harassing
General Monk. In 1681 he was knighted by Charles II., and in July 1689
he was with Viscount Dundee at Killiecrankie. He was too old to share
personally in the Jacobite rising of 1715, but his sympathies were with
the Stuarts, and his son led the Camerons at Sheriffmuir. Lochiel, who
died in February 1719, is called by Macaulay the "Ulysses of the
Highlands." He was a man of enormous strength and size, and one who met
him in 1716 says "he wrung some blood from the point of my fingers with
a grasp of his hand." An incident showing his strength and ferocity in
single combat is used by Sir Walter Scott in _The Lady of the Lake_
(canto v.). Lochiel's son and successor, John, who was attainted for
sharing in the rebellion of 1715, died in Flanders in 1748. John's son
Donald, so