With Portraits, Engravings, and a Map, showing the course of the Niger.
With slight encouragement from the Colonial Office, these young men set out on an enterprise which in all previous instances had led to death; and all who knew the nature of the climate, and the hardships they must encounter, predicted that the only news their countrymen would ever receive concerning them, would be some obscure rumour of their destruction. The narrative shows how often such predictions were on the point of being verified. There is scarcely a misery to be endured by human nature that these young men have not encountered; they have been frequently on the brink of death—they have been imprisoned—they have been sold as slaves—they have been plundered, and obliged to swim for their lives, not sure, in the end, that they were not swimming into greater danger—and, to crown the whole, they have been brutally treated and nearly sacrificed to the cupidity and revenge of savages by one of their own countrymen. In spite of all these obstacles, by means of patience and perseverance, by enthusiasm and resignation, by courage and long-suffering, they finally triumphed over every species of resistance, and, what is more, completely gained their object.
The result of Captain Clapperton’s discoveries was a very shrewd guess that the Niger flowed westward, and into the Bight of Benin. With the view of ascertaining this, the Landers were set down at the same point of the coast of Guinea where the former expedition had commenced.
THE LIFE OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO.
By J. F. Hollings.
The name of Cicero himself—the universal admiration of his genius—the era in which he flourished—and the part he enacted, bring his memoirs within the circle of subjects suited to domestic education. His Life, by Middleton, is more acceptable to the learned than the learner, and this conclusion has led to this epitome, in which the text contains the uninterrupted personal memoir of the philosopher in a popular form; while such information as belongs more distinctively to the department of ancient literature is conveyed by means of notes and references.
SIX MONTHS IN THE WEST INDIES.
By Henry Nelson Coleridge, M.A.
This little work, which has already received public approbation, is calculated to amuse in no ordinary degree, for the descriptions of scenery are vivid, the pictures of society graphic, and the adventures and anecdotes interesting and varied.
LIVES
OF THE MOST EMINENT BRITISH PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS.