THE WILD SPORTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn.

By Captain William Cornwallis Harris, of the H.E.I. Company's Engineers on the Bombay Establishment

Second edition (or first London edition): xxiv, 387 pages, tinted lithographic frontispiece - the plate - Departure from Mosega which is listed as facing page 111 as frontispiece, 2 other lithographs – all are foxed, and 4 wood engraved plates, folding map ‘Exhibiting the relative positions of the emigrant farmers and the native tribes, May 1837’ compiled by the author with the route of his travels outlined in red, half leather with matching marbled boards, end papers and edges, brown title label gilt on the spine with gilt decoration, book plate on the front paste down end paper overall a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 688, ‘This edition contains the “Proposal” of Captain Harris “to the Geographical Society of Bombay,” volunteering to proceed on an expedition to penetrate to “that great Inland Lake, the actual existence of which, between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, was first established by Dr. Smith's expedition in 1853.” In a postscript to the Introduction some particulars are given of Retief's massacre, together with his party, by Dingan, and of the efforts of the colonial authorities to put an end to the “mania of emigration” on the part of the colonial farmers.

See also: Africana Notes and News, Volume XII, No. 2, June 1956, page 63.