This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...up stream towards the north. October 22nd. Fine morning. Struck tents very early in dark and got away down the river. Sand very deep, so I walked without boots. The guide has left his lame companion (a splendid walker; in every country a lame guide, when you happen upon one, always is) and his henchman hidden ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...up stream towards the north. October 22nd. Fine morning. Struck tents very early in dark and got away down the river. Sand very deep, so I walked without boots. The guide has left his lame companion (a splendid walker; in every country a lame guide, when you happen upon one, always is) and his henchman hidden in a cave on Makubinja, and, sorely loth, consents to pilot us to the Peak of Loguno (Nrogi is the native name of it) marked on the chart, whence our path is a straight one. River rocky in places, immense boulders and large pools swarming with very decent-sized and decent-looking fish. We saw many guinea-fowl, the common species and the " kororo" or crested variety, ibises, heron, and the large blue pigeon. Several times we turned out of the river to take short cuts, through the forest to avoid the sinuosities of its course, and at four and a half hours reached a point opposite the magnificent Peak of Loguno on the left bank, whence the river extends in one long reach to a low distant range, behind which the guide declared the first outlying village of the Mwendazi people would be found, and said that we had nothing now to do but to follow the river down to the sea. Of course one knew that from the beginning, but I was very suspicious, and induced him with great difficulty to come on one and a half hour further. The sand was heavy and hot, and the sun fierce, and I therefore called a halt after midday under the shade of an immense fig-tree, breakfasted, and sent two men on, who returned shortly to say the sea could be seen from the ridge. I now let the guide go, with a lecture on mendacity and good payment for his services; but he was in such evident fear of meeting any one from Memba Bay that it was cruel to delay him long, and he started...
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Very Good. No Jacket. 22 + 417pp. 45 illustrations, all 3 maps listed are in excellent condition. Unmarked, clean, tight, apparently little handled A very good facsimile copy of this classic account of exploration and anti-slave trade work in Eastern Africa, first published in 1879. Elton was H.B.M. Consul at Mozambique. "He explored the region around Lake Nyassa and enjoyed considerable sport after elephant, hippopotamus, impala, eland, black rhinoceros, and buffalo. His descriptions of elephant hunting with his two rifles, "Big Henry" and "Little Henry", are particularly vivid. During his return to the coast he contracted fever and died." 22.
