First edition. 12mo [19.5 x 13.5 cm]; 320 pp, 14 photo plates including frontispiece portrait, folding colour map (with short tear), index. original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed and soiled at edges, very good copy.
The author wrote several works on the language of the Ngoni or Zulu people. The book has good photos of the west side of Lake Nyasa and of the local people.
The author also relates the history of the missions on Lake Nyasa in British Central Africa whichwere founded in 1878 as well as the affairs and wars of the people around the lake. Pictorial cover depicts a Ngoni with headdress, shield and upraised war club.
Published by Edinburgh and London, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1899.
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- Overall Condition: Very Good -
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