Ai.iiEMARi.F, Street, 

 April, 1890. 



MR. MURRAY'S 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS 



AND FORTHCOMING WORKS. 



EQUATORI AL AFRICA & ASHAN GO LAND. 



Adventures in the Great Forest of 

 Equatorial Africa, 



AND THE COUNTRY OF THE DWARFS. 

 By PAUL DU CHAILLU, 



Author of " The Viking Age" and " Land of the Midnight Sun." 

 An A ridged and Popular Edition. With Map and 80 Illustrations. Post 8zv. ^s. 6d. 



From the Author's Preface. 



" The heroic exploits of Stanley and his followers have aroused a fresh interest in African 

 exploration, and, my former works on Equatorial Africa being now out of print, I have been 

 encouraged by my publishers to condense into one popular volume and to re-issue the narrative 

 of my journeys. 



■' I may claim to be the first white man who penetrated into that v.-t-.t and unbroken forest, 

 which, as I have elsewhere written, extends north and south of the equator, varying in breadth 

 from two to three degrees on each side of it. Now and then, prairies looking like isUnds, 

 resembling so many gems, are found in the n\idst of this dark sea of evcrl.isting foli.-ige. 



" In this strange and weird country I travelled alone, making friends with the various tribe*, 

 studying their language, and always being passed on from one to another with friendly com- 

 mendation. I took no tent with me, but trusted entirely, when I was not residing in any 

 village, to such temporary shelters roofed with leaves as the natives are accustometl to make 

 for themselves. 



" A few travellers, and Nfr. Stanley at their head, have touched the outskirts of the country 

 I traversed, and have confirmed by independent testimony my narrative, more especially on 

 such points as the existence of tribes of cannibals and dwarfs, whom I w.os the first to discover, 

 the density and vast extent of the central forest of Africa, and the range of mountains to 

 the eastward, but no white man, so far as I am aw.are. has been able to penetrate to the 

 haunts of the gorilla and bring home fresh specimens to place beside mine." 



