41 and 43 Maddox Street, 
Bond Street, London, W., 
October, 1907. 
Mr. Edward Arnold’s 
List of New Books. 
Telegrams : 
‘Scholarly, London,’ 
FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE. 
By BOYD ALEXANDER, 
LIEUTENANT, RiFLE BRIGADE. 
Two volumes. Large Medium 8v0. With Ilustvations 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 explorets. 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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