ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author illustrates how perspectives of race and masculine identities feature significantly in nineteenth-century travel narratives and how the specific location and people are framed along Orientalist designs to enforce concepts of race and gender. By identifying masculine qualities in their favoured male companions they underscore their own sense of manhood and establish a ground of legitimacy for the relationships. William Charles Scully was twelve when he emigrated with his parents from Ireland to South Africa in 1867. Conflicted by the thrill and savagery of the hunt, Scully often shifts feelings of guilt by blaming women. The style of the recollection is notably different from that of James Edward Alexander's and Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming's work; deeply contemplative and nostalgic, Scully ponders the devastating consequences of colonialism on humans and the environment. Colonial travel narratives, layered as they are with fictional devices and stories about the 'other', can also indirectly give voice to the 'other'.
