EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

First Edition: 535 pages (pages [390] - [457] or sections *1 - *5 are additional to the pagination making a total of 603 pages - all copies were issued thus, + 24 pages publisher’s catalogue, 3 colour folding maps, chromolithographic frontispiece 'Regiment of Flamingoes - Swakop River,' 7 engraved plates, 27 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, uncut edges, some light foxing throughout and on the page edges, original blind stamped maroon cloth neatly recased preserving the original back strip, titled gilt on the spine, new brown endpapers with the original book binder’s ticket of Westleys & Co., on the rear paste-down endpaper, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1, page 69 -70: The journey was started on March 20, 1861, and the author was joined by his fellow-traveller, Mr. J. Chapman, on the 20th of July. The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives. It is stated that Livingstone, who had travelled over some of these regions, was often indistinctly under stood by the natives, and that he made errors in consequence, the natives themselves averring that Scotchmen, however perfectly they may understand the language of the country, invariably speak it with an idiom that renders them more or less unintelligible.