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PREFACE 



AMERICAN PUBLISHER. 



Dk. Livingstone is the most remarkable of all the 

 travellers who have visited Africa. His personal nar- 

 rative is the most important and interesting of all that 

 have yet been published. It will prove the most influ- 

 ential on future discovery. His great journey across 

 the continent was almost entirely over ground hitherto 

 untrodden by the foot of the white man. The infor- 

 mation which he gives is therefore fresh, and, in 

 many instances, refutes and explodes the theories of 

 previous travellers. In the matter of personal adven- 

 tures and hairbreadth escapes it is much richer than 

 the doctor could have desired. 



Dr. Livingstone is a very pleasing writer, a man of 

 true Christian benevolence, a man of extensive scien- 

 tific information, and an indefatigable laborer in the 

 cause of discovery and civilization. His personal nar- 

 rative contains a vast amount of information on the 

 geology, meteorology, zoology, and history of the coun- 

 tries which he visited, which will be esteemed highly 



