Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and CameroonsRelateth the various causes which impelled the author to...
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Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

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Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

$275,583.10 $6.99
Author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta,1862-1900
Format: eBook
Language: English

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Relateth the various causes which impelled the author to embark upon the voyage. It was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself in possession of five or six months which were not heavily forestalled, and feeling like a boy with a new half-crown, I lay about in my mind, as Mr. Bunyan would say, as to what to do with them. Go and learn your tropics, said Science. Where on earth am I to go? I wondered, for tropics are tropics wherever found, so I got down an atlas and saw that either South America or West Africa must be my destination, for the Malayan region was too far off and too expensive. Then I got Wallaces Geographical Distribution and after reading that masters article on the Ethiopian region I hardened my heart and closed with West Africa. I did this the more readily because while I knew nothing of the practical condition of it, I knew a good deal both by tradition and report of South East America, and remembered that Yellow Jack was endemic, and that a certain naturalist, my superior physically and mentally, had come very near getting starved to death in the depressing society of an expedition slowly perishing of want and miscellaneous fevers up the Parana. My ignorance regarding West Africa was soon removed. And although the vast cavity in my mind that it occupied is not even yet half filled up, there is a great deal of very curious information in its place. I use the word curious advisedly, for I think many seemed to translate my request for practical hints and advice into an advertisement that Rubbish may be shot here. This same information is in a state of great confusion still, although I have made heroic efforts to codify it. I find, however, that it can almost all be got in under the following different headings, namely and to wit: - ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 5891
Author: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
Release Date: Jun 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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