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NARRATIVE

OF

DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE

IN

• AFRICA,"

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME:

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE

GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, AND ZOOLOGY.

BY PROFESSOR JAMESON, JAMES WILSON, ESQ., F.R.S.E.,
AND HUGH MURRAY, ESQ., F.R.S.E.

WITH A MAP; PLANS OF THE ROUTES OF PARK, AND OF DENHAM AND
CLAPPERTON; AND SEVERAL ENGRAVINGS.

New-York:

PRINTED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-ST.

Sold by Collins & Hannay, Collins & Co., G. & C. & H. Carvill,
White, Gallaher, & White, E. Bliss, C. S. Francis ;-ALBANY, O. Steele,
and Little & Cummings;-PHILADELPHIA, John Grigg, Carey & Lea,
Towar & Hogan, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, T. Desilver, jr., and U. Hunt.

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PREFACE.

THE object of this volume is to exhibit, within a moderate compass, whatever is most interesting in the adventures and observations of those travellers who, from the earliest ages, and in various directions, have sought to explore Africa; and also to give a general view of the physical and social condition of that extensive continent at the present day. This quarter of the globe has afforded more ample scope than any other to the exertions of that class of men whose enterprising spirit impels them, regardless of toil and peril, to penetrate into unknown countries. Down to a comparatively recent period, the greater part of its immense surface was the subject only of vague report and conjecture. The progress of those discoverers, by whom a very large extent of its interior regions has at length been disclosed, having been accompanied with arduous labours, and achieved in the face of the most formidable obstacles, presents a continued succession of striking incidents, as well as of new and remarkable objects: and our interest cannot fail to be heightened by the consideration, that Britain, by the intrepid spirit of her travellers, her associations of distinguished individuals, and her national patronage, has secured almost the exclusive glory of the many important discoveries which have been made within the last forty years.

The work now submitted to the public, and the recent one on the Polar Regions, embrace two of the most interesting fields of modern discovery. The adventurers who traversed these opposite parts of the world frequently found their efforts checked, and their career arrested, by the operation of causes which, although equally powerful, were yet extremely dif

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