The African sketch-book . 05 O- <D O & & pq H si THE AFRICAN SKETCH-BOOK BY WINWOOD READE WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN TWO VOLUMES Vol. I. LONDONSMITH, ELDER, & CO., 51 WATERLOO PLACE All rights reserved £73 PREFACE This WORK contains a brief recapitulation of my pre-viously published travels in Equatorial Africa, Angola,and Senegambia during 1862 and a part of 1863 ;essays on the slave trade, African exploration, andthe progress of Islam in Negroland ; several tales in-tended to illustrate the manners and customs of thenatives ; and, finally, my recent travels. In 1868 I visited Africa a
The African sketch-book . 05 O- <D O & & pq H si THE AFRICAN SKETCH-BOOK BY WINWOOD READE WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN TWO VOLUMES Vol. I. LONDONSMITH, ELDER, & CO., 51 WATERLOO PLACE All rights reserved £73 PREFACE This WORK contains a brief recapitulation of my pre-viously published travels in Equatorial Africa, Angola,and Senegambia during 1862 and a part of 1863 ;essays on the slave trade, African exploration, andthe progress of Islam in Negroland ; several tales in-tended to illustrate the manners and customs of thenatives ; and, finally, my recent travels. In 1868 I visited Africa a second time, spent somemonths on the Gold Coast and Slave Coast, and thenmade a ten months exploring journey from SierraLeone, opening a new country and obtaining im-portant geographical results. I also made two tripsto the backwoods of Liberia, which is almost un-written ground, and carefully studied the NegroRepublic. I returned home in 1870, having passedtwo years on the coast or in the interior, indus-trafricansketchboo01read
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