First edition (pp. 293). Small octavo (19 cm) in blue pictorial publisher's cloth, gilt titles and decorations, frontispiece portrait of the author.
Late in 1843 the Rev. Ridsdale, newly arrived from England, set out from Cape Town with his wife on a 600-mile journey to the mission at Nisbett Bath in Great Namaqualand just as the dry season had begun. Extracts from his journal extending over the four subsequent years spent as a Wesleyan missionary with descriptions of the country and its people. Near Fine.
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