James Jameson
✓ Source-basedrisingScottish naturalist and traveller in Africa (1856-1888)
Historical FiguresLived 1856 to 1888 · aged 32
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James Sligo Jameson was a Scottish naturalist and traveller in Africa. He identified the black honey-buzzard in 1877. Jameson's antpecker, Jameson's firefinch, and Jameson's wattle-eye are named after him. However, he is most remembered for his role in causing a young slave girl to be killed and eaten by cannibals.
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Photograph of Jameson
The entrenched camp at Yambuya - drawing from Jameson's diary![A "copy" or rather a reconstruction of Jameson's sketches, from James William Buel, Heroes of the Dark Continent (c. 1890). It follows the description of the sketches given by Farran. Bonny described their contents somewhat differently, and Jameson's actual sketches were never published.[25][26]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Killing_and_cutting_up_of_a_slave_girl.jpeg/500px-Killing_and_cutting_up_of_a_slave_girl.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
A "copy" or rather a reconstruction of Jameson's sketches, from James William Buel, Heroes of the Dark Continent (c. 1890). It follows the description of the sketches given by Farran. Bonny described their contents somewhat differently, and Jameson's actual sketches were never published.[25][26]
A slave girl - drawing from Jameson's diary
"A cannibal scene with human flesh roasting over the fire" - drawing by Herbert Ward
The House in Bangala Station where Jameson died, presumably drawn by Herbert Ward (from Jameson's posthumously published diary)
Jameson's firefinch (male)Historical Figures born in the 1850s 6
About this person
Category
Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
Status
deceased
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Lived 1856 to 1888 · aged 32
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