The 1871 census shows him again living at his parents' home, but now at Beaconsfield House, Woolton, occupation "Under Graduate, Cambridge".

Frank James wrote Wild Tribes of the Sudan (1883)[5] and The Unknown Horn of Africa (1888).

[7] His writing was not without humour and in The Unknown Horn of Africa (p. 20), when seeking advice from British Agent Langton Prendergast Walsh on how best to procure camels and handlers for the expedition, he recalls: "Well, I felt I was nowhere and nohow.

Berbera is hot place, and the superior physique of Mr. Walsh was beginning to tell; his energy and emphasis were oppressing without impressing me, and seemed to increase, as though he were receiving all I was losing.

Obviously not amused, forty-two years later Walsh devoted a chapter in his book Under the Flag - and Somali Coast Stories to the James expedition.