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_The amount of travel literature which HARPER & BROTHERS have
published relating to Africa makes a curious list, and
illustrates the bent of geographical and political examination
for some time past. The octavos of Burton, Barth, Livingstone,
Du Chaillu, Davis, and a number of other celebrated travellers,
form a small library, all the result of the last few years'
devotion to African exploration_--N. Y. JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.
=Speke's Africa.= Journal of the Discovery of the Sources of the Nile.
By JOHN HANNING SPEKE, Captain H.M. Indian Army, Fellow and Gold
Medalist of the Royal Geographical Society, Hon. Corr. Member and Gold
Medalist of the French Geographical Society, &c. With Map and Portraits,
and numerous Illustrations, chiefly from Drawings by Captain GRANT. 8vo,
Cloth, $3 50.
=Reade's Savage Africa.= Western Africa: being the Narrative of a Tour
of Equatorial, Southwestern, and Northwestern Africa; with Notes on the
Habits of the Gorilla; on the Existence of Unicorns and Tailed Men; on
the Slave Trade; on the Origin, Character, and Capabilities of the
Negro, and of the future Civilization of Western Africa. By W. WINWOOD
READE, Fellow of the Geog. and Anthropological Soc. of Lond., and Corr.
Member of the Geog. Soc. of Paris. With Illustrations and a Map. 8vo,
Cloth, $3 50.
=Du Chaillu's Equatorial Africa.= Explorations and Adventures in
Equatorial Africa; with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the
People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard,
Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals. By PAUL B. DU CHAILLU, Corr.
Member of the Amer. Ethnological Soc.; of the Geog. and Statistical Soc.
of New York, and of the Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist. Maps and numerous
Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $3 75.
=Baldwin's African Hunting.= African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi,
including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c., from 1852 to 1860. By
WILLIAM CHARLES BALDWIN, F.R.G.S. With Map, Fifty Illustrations by Wolf
and Zwecker, and a Portrait of the Great Sportsman. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
=Andersson's Okavango River.= The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel,
Exploration, and Adventure. By CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON, Author of "Lake
Ngami." With Steel Portrait of the Author, numerous Wood-cuts, and a Map
showing the Regions explored by Andersson, Cumming, Livingstone, Burton,
and Du Chaillu. 8vo, Cloth, $2 50.
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