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our author, or a longer sojourn among Eng- 

 lish-speaking people (he was obliged to trav- 

 el almost entirel}^ on English steamers) may 

 have made the English words less displeasing 

 to him ; for further on he writes of Port Eliza- 

 beth and Steamer Point without any com- 

 punctions. From Port Elizabeth he travelled 

 inland to Kimberly, and Orange Free State, 

 reaching the coast again at East London ; 

 thence to Port Natal, where he again left the 

 coast, and proceeded to Durban and Zululand. 

 He writes Zulu, Zambesi, and Zanzibar, ' Su- 

 lu,' ' Sambesi,' and ' Sansibar,' on the ground 

 that s represents the sound better than z. So, 

 too, he spells Cetewa3^o, ' Ketschwa3^o,' and 



making such allowances, his account of the 

 English South-African colonies is sufficienth' 

 full and accurate for the general reader. 



The illustrations are a feature of the work. 

 But while the full-page Uchtdrucken ('helio- 

 types') are excellent, a few smaller portraits 

 of negro men and women have much more 

 interest for the student of African ethnology. 

 Indeed, Africa should be visited b}' a good pho- 

 tographer, — one who would be willing to de- 

 vote a portion of his energies to taking pictures 

 of individuals, and not, as has generall}' been the 

 case, confine himself to groups of badly scared 

 natives artistically^ arranged in rather suspi- 

 cious-looking ' market-places,' ' main streets,' 



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probably is right in all four cases. Returning 

 to Port Natal, he once more took steamer, 

 and, after touching at ten or eleven places, re- 

 turned home via Aden and the Suez Canal. 

 He visited neither Angra Pequena nor any 

 other port on the coast now claimed b}^ Ger- 

 man}' in south-western Africa, nor Madagas- 

 car, concerning which there is need of fresh 

 and reliable information. With these excep- 

 tions, he did all that could be expected of 

 him ; and we know of no better account of the 

 growth, economic conditions, and ethnographic 

 relations of the countries visited. vSome allow- 

 ance, of course, must be made for his sympa- 

 thy with the boers as against England ; but, 



and the like. The volume is further illustrated 

 b}' a very good map — as maps of Africa go — 

 from the establishment of Justus Perthes, 

 showing our author's route, and the portions of 

 the coast-line claimed b}^ the English, French, 

 Spaniards, Portuguese, and Germans. One 

 noticeable feature is that the Welle of Schwein- 

 furth is given as probabl}" identical with Stan- 

 le3''s Aruwimi, which would seem to be a 

 rather premature statement. Then, too, the 

 courses of rivers are laid down altogether too 

 positivel3\ Still, one should not quarrel with 

 this map on that account, as it is a failing 

 of nearly all maps of Africa, and, indeed, of 

 maps of all partiall}' explored countries. 



