Book/Printed Material Tropical Africa,
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Image 2 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 4 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 5 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 6 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 7 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 8 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 9 of Tropical Africa, TROPICAL AFRICA BY HENRY DKUMMOND, LLJX, F.R.S.E. Author of Natural Law in the Spiritual World. i NEW TORK JOHN B. ALDEX, PUBLISHER 1890
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 10 of Tropical Africa, .Hz JUL 20 \929 American Univers-
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 11 of Tropical Africa, CO NT ENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA THE RIVERS ZAMBESI AND SHIRE ,7 CHAPTER II. THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASSA 22 CHAPTER...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 12 of Tropical Africa,
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 13 of Tropical Africa, PREFACE. It is the genial tax of literature upon Travel that those who have explored the regions of the uncivilised should open their bag of wonders before the world and celebrate their...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 14 of Tropical Africa, PREFACE. disheartened by the heavy pomp of technical expres- sion. If anything in a work of this class could pretend to a serious purpose, I do not conceal that, in addition to...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 15 of Tropical Africa, TEOPICAL AFEIOA. THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA. THE ZAMBESI AND SHIRE. Three distinct Africas are known to the modern world North Africa, where men go for health; South Africa, where...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 16 of Tropical Africa, 8 TROPICAL AFRICA. has never trod before. It is a wonderful thing to look at this weird world of human beings half ani- mal half children, wholly savage and wholly heathen and...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 17 of Tropical Africa, THE MATER-ROUTE TO THE IIEART OP AFRICA. 9 of old slave gangs, and the fugitives from justice from every tribe, congregate for hire. And if there is one thing on which African...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 18 of Tropical Africa, 10 TROPICAL AFRICA. great highway from the East to Central Africa. Let me briefly sketch it Africa, speaking generally, is a vast, ill-formed triangle. It has no peninsulas; it has almost no...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 19 of Tropical Africa, THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA. 11 is 350 miles long so that, with the Zambesi, the Shire*, and this great lake, we have the one thing required to open up...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 20 of Tropical Africa, 12 TROPICAL AFRICA. two go, you and your friend are simply nursing each other time about, and the expedition never gets on. On the whole, however, the solitary course is not to...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 21 of Tropical Africa, THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA. 13 His larger ally, the black and white spotted king- fisher, if less beautiful, is much more energetic, and darts about the bank incessantly, coquetting...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 22 of Tropical Africa, 14 TROPICAL AFRICA. lived upon emaciated fowls and tinned meats cook- ing them at a fire on the bank when the boat stopped. Eggs are never eaten by the natives, but always...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 23 of Tropical Africa, THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA. 15 denly on the banks of the Zambesi. A solitary bun- galow was in sight, and opposite it the little steamer of the African Lakes...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 24 of Tropical Africa, 16 TROPTCAL AFRICA. vitality and luxuriance stands Mrs. Livingstone s grave. The picture in Livingstone s book represents the place as well kept and surrounded with neatly- planted trees. But now it...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 25 of Tropical Africa, THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA. 17 could be produced in quantity to supply the whole of Europe. At present, owing to apathy and in- different government, these magnificent resources are...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 26 of Tropical Africa, 18 TU0P1CAL AFMCA. only one of a few years. It is hard to think why this kindly and sagacious creature should have to be exterminated; why this vast store of animal energy,...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 27 of Tropical Africa, THE WATER-T10XTTE TO THE HEART OE AFRICA. 19 relation, influence them only in one, and that the lowest, direction, and leave them always worse than they find them worse in greed, in...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 28 of Tropical Africa, 20 TROPICAL AFRICA. he himself was instantly speared by Chipitula s men and all his black porters, according to native etiquette, were butchered with their master. There is ab- solutely no law...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 29 of Tropical Africa, THE WATER-ROUTE TO THE HEART OF AFRICA. 21 ing on the ground around us. The watch-fires must have burned down, for a lion had suddenly sprung into the camp. Seizing the man...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 30 of Tropical Africa, 2 2 TROPICAL AFRICA. II. THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY. LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASSA. Somewhere in the Shire Highlands, in 1859, Liv* ingstone saw a large lake Lake Shirwa which is still...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 31 of Tropical Africa, THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTU V. 23 that with a little care one could watch their move- ments safely within a very few yards. It may see in unorthodox to say so,...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 32 of Tropical Africa, 24 TROPICAL AFRICA. for a moment to explain to the uninitiated the true mode of African travel. In spite of all the books that have been lavished upon us by our great...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 33 of Tropical Africa, THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY 25 suddenly he sniffs the sea-breeze again, and his faith- ful foot- wide guide lands him on the Atlantic sea- board. Nor is there any art in...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 34 of Tropical Africa, 26 TROPICAL AFRICA. encountered no native will ever think of removing it. Why should he It is easier to walk round it. The next man who comes that way will do the...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 35 of Tropical Africa, THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY. 27 of the Great Salt Lake simmering in a July sun. We pitched our tent for a day or two on its western shore among a harmless...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 36 of Tropical Africa, 28 TROPICAL AFRICA. before, and the wonderment of the natives as the Big Canoe hissed past their villages is described by those who witnessed it as a spectacle of indescribable interest. The...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 37 of Tropical Africa, THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY. 29 dry season the Bala s screw stirs the gray mud at the bottom. The friendship of the few villages along the bank is secured by an...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 38 of Tropical Africa, SO TROPICAL AFRICA. mountains of granite, green to the summit with forest, encircled it, and on the silver sand of a still smaller bay stood the small row of trim white cottages....
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 39 of Tropical Africa, THE EAST AFRICAN LAKE COUNTRY. 31 escape, but its finger is upon him and well for him if he has a friend near when it finally overtakes him. It is preceded for...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890
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Image 40 of Tropical Africa, 32 TROPICAL AFRICA. suffer from fever equally with Europeans, and this more particularly in changing from district to district and from altitude to altitude. Thus, in marching over the Tanganyika plateau, four...
- Contributor: Drummond, Henry
- Date: 1890