This is an exceedingly interesting series of letters on the political and social situation in India, China, Japan, and the Far East generally.
A PICNIC PARTY IN WILDEST AFRICA.
By C. W. L. BULPETT.
Being a Sketch of a Winter’s Trip to some of the Unknown Waters of the Upper Nile.
Demy 8vo. With Illustrations and Map. 12s. 6d. net.
The object of the expedition described in this book was to survey the Musha and Boma plateaux, which lie between the River Akobo and Lake Rudolf. It was organized by Mr. W. N. McMillan, an experienced American traveller, and was remarkably successful, though the fact that one of the caravans marched thirty-eight days on half-rations, largely through a country flooded by incessant rain, shows that the excursion was very far from being altogether a picnic. Mounts Ungwala and Naita were ascended, and hundreds of square miles of previously unexplored country were surveyed and mapped. The accounts of the abundance of game will make the sportsman’s mouth water.
A considerable amount of the description of scenery and life on the Nile and Sobat is extracted from the journal of Mrs. McMillan, who accompanied her husband. Many of the illustrations are from drawings made on the spot by Mr. Jessen, cartographer of the expedition.
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