The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

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LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE
THE IVORY PORTER.
THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA A PICTURE OF EXPLORATION
BY RICHARD F. BURTON Capt. H. M. I. Army: Fellow and Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society
“ Some to discover islands far away ”— Shakspere
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I.
LONDON LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS 1860
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TO MY SISTER, MARIA STISTED, THESE PAGES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
I had intended this record of personal adventure to appear immediately after my return to Europe, in May 1859. The impaired health, the depression of spirits, and worse still the annoyance of official correspondence, which to me have been the sole results of African Exploration, may be admitted as valid reasons for the delay.
In April, 1860, the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain honoured me by publishing a detailed paper, forming the XXIXth Volume of their Journal, from which the topographical descriptions contained in the following pages have, with their kind permission, been extracted. I have now attempted to combine with geography and ethnology, a narrative of occurrences and an exposition of the more popular and picturesque points of view which the subject offers.