Already the low surf-beat shores of West Africa have been visible for days, and ’midst the sultry atmosphere of the Tropics it has become no easy task to fling back one’s thoughts into the cold solitudes of the northern wilds.
Sierra Leone, October 15th, 1873.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.
The missing part of the map was in the binding of the original book.
In the Table of Contents, page references to the first three chapters were off by 2, and have been corrected here.
Transcriber removed redundant hemi-title following the List of Illustrations.
Original text used “cortége” and “cortêge”. Although neither is likely correct, this ebook uses “cortége.”