THE KINGDOM OF THE BAROTSI (Upper Zambezia)

Published by T Fisher Unwin London, 1899 . 1st Edition.

Large Octavo.xx. 304 pp [268pps + 3 Appendices] Portrait frontispiecs with 97 illustrations - halftones from authors photographs + line illustrations and sketches by Van Muyden plus two folding maps in good condition.. Original red cloth gilt with gilt titles and gilt Buffalo on the front board. Fade to gilt title on front board and spine. Internally very good with some light rashes of foxing to the title page. Binding a little shaken. Uncommon title.

September 13r/i.--"We are still navigating the canal;; This canal was opened by command of King Lewanika when M. Coillard, after unimaginable difficulties, had cut a first canal connecting befulu with the Zambezi. a great number of aquatic birds of all sizes, and with bills of the most various shapes, inhabit the banks. I admire a colony of enchanting birds with glittering plumage wherein purple and blue predominate; a number of holes dug at regular intervals in the banks serve them for nests. To catch fish, the neighbouring natives make dams of reeds across the current. We come across other fishermen in canoes even frailer than ours, armed with long, flexible spears."