RECENT DISCOVERY 



AND 



ADYENTTJRE m AFRICA. 



The following list includes all the standard works in which are recorded the labors of those Ex- 

 plorers, Travelers, and Hunters who have, within the last ten years, contributed so greatly to our 

 knowledge of the Geography, Ethnology, and Natural History of the long mysterious interior of 

 Africa. These works are all finely and abundantly illustrated, and embrace the entire round of 

 Recent Exploration. 



A COMPANION "WORK 



TO 



BURTON, LIVINGSTONE, AND BARTH. 

 Du Chaillu's Travels in Equatorial Africa- 



Du Chaillu's Four Years' Travel and Adventure in the Unexplored Regions 

 of Equatorial Africa. "With full* Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the 

 Cannibal Tribes of Central Africa ; of the Habits of the Gorilla and other hith- 

 erto unknown Man-like Apes ; and of Hunts after the Gorilla and other 

 strange Animals. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Muslin. (In Prepara- 

 tion.) 



The Lake Regions of Central Africa. 



A Picture of Exploration. By Richard F. Burton, Capt. H.M.I. Army; 



Fellow and Gold Medalist of the Royal Geographical Society. With Maps 



and Engravings on Wood. 8vo, Muslin, $3 00. (Uniform with Barih and 



Livii^ff stone.') 



into the heart of Central Africa may -n-ell be 

 classed among the boldest and most successful 

 achievements in the annals of inland discovery. 

 —London Spectator. 



Captain Burton is an amateur Ulysses. * * * A 

 more active mind was never accompanied by a 

 livelier pen. — Literanj Gazette. 



Captain Burton's march of a thousand miles 



Livingstone's South Africa. 



Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ; including a Sketch of 

 Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the 

 Cape of Good Hope to Loando on 'the West Coast ; thence across the Con- 

 tinent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. By David Living- 

 stone, LL.D., D.C.L. With Portrait, Maps by Arrowsmith, and numerous 

 Illustrations. 8vo, Muslin, $3 00 ; Half Calf, $4 00. 



The African Columbus has broken the egg, 

 and let the world into his secret. What he has 

 achieved, and endured, and conquered ; the 

 witchcraft which, for sixteen years, he has used 

 against a vertical sun and a malign climate — 

 how he has run the gauntlet of carnivores, and 

 pachyderms, and ophidia — how he has lived on 

 roots, and locusts, and frogs, and moistened his 

 mouth only with rain or river water— how he has 

 striven with thirst and fever, with the loss of let- 

 ters, and the absence of intelligent compa-Hion- 



ship— how he has sounded unknown lakes, bro- 

 ken through thoi-ny jungles, navigated unknown 

 rivers, opened to light a world teeming with floral, 

 animal, and mineral wonders — obtaining ingress 

 for science, for commerce, for religion— and lead- 

 ing after him, as the special spoils of his expedi- 

 tion, a throng of colored indigeni, drawn along 

 by no other fetters save of love and admiration. 

 So runs the story of his book— a book not so much 

 of travel and adventure as, in its purport and 

 spacious relation, a veritable poem. — Athenceuni. 



