xxiv plus 501pp. Original gilt vignetted and titled maroon cloth hardcover. Numerous woodcut illustrations and a folding map.
Faded spine. Some wear to spine-ends and corners. Prev. pwner's name penned to free front EP. Foxing to tissue-guard and adjoining frontispiece and title page. Text pages are clean. Binding is tight. Some foxing to rear fold-out map.
The account of Du Chaillu’s second African expedition. ‘In 1863 Du Chaillu returned to Gabon, did a little trading, assembled a caravan well equipped with scientific instruments and cameras and hired seventy porters and a few guides. He met with Massangou people (in what he called Ashango) 200 miles southeast of the Gabon River and visited a pygmy settlement nearby. When one of his men accidentally shot two Massangous, his party was forced to abandon many supplies and flee for their lives. He was wounded by two poisoned arrows. Fortunately, he saved his extensive notebooks. Back in England in 1865, Du Chaillu lectured more successfully and prepared 'A journey to Ashango-Land' for publication in 1867. Many readers disputed his sensational descriptions of pygmies until later explorers asserted that they were substantially accurate’ (ANB).Hosken p. 63.
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