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October, 1907. 



Mr. Edward Arnold's 



List of New Books. 



FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE. 



By BOYD ALEXANDER, 



Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade. 



Two volumes. Large Medium Svo. With Illustrations and Maps. 



36s. net. 



It may be doubted whether any exploring expedition of modern 

 times compares for interest and romance with that led by Lieut. 

 Boyd Alexander from the Niger to the Nile in 1904-1907. The 

 distance accomplished was about 5,000 miles, and among the many 

 remarkable results of the expedition was the demonstration that it 

 was possible to go almost the whole way by water ; in fact, the steel 

 boats which conveyed the stores were only carried for fourteen days 

 out of the three years occupied by the journey. 



The book is packed with adventure, much of it of a kind unusual 

 even for Central African explorers. In one famine-stricken village 

 young girls are offered to the party for food ; elsewhere the people, 

 fleeing before them, throw down babies in the hope of staying their 

 hunger, and so stopping their advance. In contrast with these 

 cannibals, we find other populations engaged in the arts and in- 

 dustries of a comparatively high state of civilization. Two of the 

 party — Lieut. Alexander's brother and Captain G. B. Gosling — 

 died of fever at different stages of the journey. The survivors had 

 countless escapes from death by disease, poisoned arrows, hunger, 

 lightning, and drowning. The numerous exciting hunting-stories 

 include the capture of an okapi after a weary search. There was a 

 good deal of fighting with natives in the earlier stages of the journey, 

 but on the whole the people, when not shy, seem to have been well 



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