Alfred Aloysius HornAlfred Aloysius Horn was born in 1854, and as a teenager sailed from the U.K. to Africa where he died in1927. In between, he lived a varied and colorful life. He was an ivory trader in Central Africa, a big game hunter, a gold and copper prospector, a Scotland Yard detective, the liberator of an Isorga princess, a distiller of prickly pear brandy, an admiral of a cannibal river fleet, the first white man initiated into the Egbo, and a mine-sweeper. He became acquainted with Ulysses S. Grant and Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia. Later in life, he turned to simpler things and became a gridiron peddler and dealer in literary novelties.
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