IN REMOTEST BAROTSELAND

Published by Hurst and Blackett, 1904. xv, 413, [2] pp. 8vo. Condition: Very good original green cloth with gilt titles to spine and black outline of native on the front board. First edition. Internally good with a frontis of the author and numerous black and white ills. Coloured map at rear of book. Some occasional light foxing. Small nick to top head of spine. Uncommon.

In 1896 the author was engaged in suppressing the rebellion in Mashonaland, and later became an administrator in Barotse-land. He escorted the late King Lewanika to England in 1902 and describes amusingly the little difficulties that confront the official guide of a self-willed native potentate. He left Barotseland because the Chartered Company thought him too conciliatory to the natives.

Colonel Harding was then appointed to Northern Nigeria, which he found to be far more restful than Rhodesia. He served in the War in France, till he was invalided out after the Somme, and then went back to West Africa—this time to the Gold Coast, of whose people he has a high opinion. Colonel Harding writes simply and unaffectedly of his varied experiences, and describes particularly well his encounter with a lion who mauled him and left him for dead.