With Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
In his adventurous and interesting journey, the author traversed a region practically unexplored by any white man since the days of Barth. Starting with a large and somewhat unruly caravan, one of his great difficulties was to keep the peace between the Arabs and Negros who composed it: as the expedition advanced farther south they had to encounter terrible desert tracts where no water could be found for days, and where oases were few and far between. At a later stage the hostility of certain native tribes with a taste for brigandage caused serious trouble, and some severe fighting. The author, however, accepted his mischances with philosophy, and imparts to the reader the pleasure and excitement that each day’s journey brought forth. The narrative is graphic and picturesque, and much information is conveyed incidentally as to the resources of the country and the life of its inhabitant.
WITH A PREHISTORIC PEOPLE: The A=ki=ku=yu of British East Africa.
By W. SCORESBY ROUTLEDGE, M.A., Oxon, and KATHARINE ROUTLEDGE, M.A.
Trin. Coll., Dublin.
With 176 pages of Illustrations and a Map. Medium 8vo. 21s. net.
This is the first published account of one of the most interesting of African peoples, previously unknown to white men, who have lately come under British rule. The object of the authors, who have recently returned from a prolonged sojourn amongst them, is to describe primitive life as it really exists, and the book should be of great value to those who are interested in our Empire and its responsibilities as well as to those of more scientific tastes. It should also prove of material assistance to Government officials, settlers, and travellers in the country described, enabling them to understand native thought and custom. ‘The great interest of the subject,’ say the authors, ‘lies in the fact that the A-ki-kú-yu of to-day are at the point where our ancestors stood in earliest times.’ There are nearly two hundred pages of illustrations from the authors’ photographs.
A CENTURY OF EMPIRE, 1801–1900.
Volume II., from 1833 to 1867.