The Life and Work of a Great Traveller 



George Grenfell 

 nd the Congo 



By Sir HARRY JOHNSTON, Q.C.M.Q., K.C.B., etc. 



Author of 



: The Uganda Protectorate" (4th thousand), "Liberia: the Negro Republic in West 



Africa," etc. 



With over 480 Illustrations and several Maps 

 and two Photogravure Plates 



In 2 vols., royal 8vo, cloth gilt and gilt top^ 30s. net 



The late Rev. George Grenfell, who died recently on the Upper 

 mgo, was, after Stanley, the leading explorer of the Congo Basin : 

 also explored the Cameroons thirty years ago. He was a gold 

 icdallist of the Royal Geographical and a member of many other 

 irned societies, which have acknowledged his achievements as 

 explorer. Sir Harry Johnston is specially qualified to write on the 

 fe and work of Mr. Grenfell, whom he met some years ago on the 

 'ongo, as he has been a Consul in the regions where the late explorer 

 iboured, besides which he has had much to do, as an official, with 

 ic Baptist mission in the Cameroons. The diaries and papers of 

 [r. Grenfell have been placed in Sir Harry Johnston's hands ; he 

 is also been entrusted with all the material that the Missionary 

 :iety could obtain from the stores of information of Mr. Grenfell 

 id of his colleagues on the Congo. Sir Harry has therefore 

 ien able to produce a comprehensive work on that little-known 

 region. Mr. Grenfell was an expert photographer ; of the illustrations 

 in the book at least 250 of them will be from Mr. Grenfeli's beautiful 

 pictures, besides which there will be contributions from other sources. 

 This book contains a careful summing-up of recent evidence for 

 and against the Congo Free State, together with some interesting and 

 never before published remarks on the same from the diaries of Mr. 

 Grenfell. The growing interest in the future of the Congo Free State 

 is likely to attract considerable attention to this book with its beautiful 

 and novel illustrations and its first-hand evidence on the subject. 





