Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa

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Excerpt from Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa: With an Account of the First Successful Ascent of the Equatorial Snow Mountain, Kilima Njaro, And Remarks Upon East African SlaveryHE substance Of this volume would probably have seen the light more than a year ago, but for the occurrence of circumstances which the author either could not foresee or could not avoid. In the early part of 1872 he was returning to England for the purpose, among other things, of publishing some such work, when his homeward career was suddenly stopped by his meeting, at Zanzibar, with the Livingstone Search and Relief Expedition, which he was invited to join. His connection with that unfortunate undertaking delayed him some months, and when he did' reach the shores of Eng land, he was so besieged with correspondence and calls upon his time and labours in behalf of missionary anniversaries, anti-slavery meetings, etc., etc., that book-writing, for the time, was rendered quite im possible. As he had opportunity a few sentences were jotted down, but no great progress was made. The Object of the work is to give as accurate a viewof a portion of Africa and its peoples, and of pioneer missionary work, as possible, not to draw a picture, but tlw picture, abjuring couleur de rose, making no attempt to magnify difficulties or to exaggerate ad venture, but stating flee trail: regarding everything, relying upon reality and veracity for the interest we aim at exciting.The part of the country over which we have to conduct the reader is entirely distinct from that which has been so exhaustively dealt with by Burton, Speke, Grant, Livingstone, and Stanley, the only in formation upon it before the public being that which has been supplied by Krapf, Rebmann, and Von der Decken, the two former in a volume which, from its price, we believe has not circulated widely, and which is now out of print, and the latter in a work which has only been published in German. Moreover, some portions of the country we describe had never been visited hitherto by any European whatever. The present work may therefore claim something on the score of novelty, the land, peoples, scenes, circum stances, and experiences portrayed being almost entirely new, and, to indicate an additional attrae tion, we may express the opinion that no part of Africa possesses characteristics of greater interest than that which it is our endeavour to bring before the notice of the reader.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.