Through Unknown African Countries

1 volume. First edition 1897.

Publishers original cloth cover.

Title label on spine.

xvi, 471page + 4 page publishers catalogue.

Half title + photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard.

6 maps, some folding and some partly coloured.

Full-page plates + in-text illustrations.

The expedition explored the unknown territory between Somaliland

and Lake Rudolf. 'At the time it was the universal opinion that it would be

impossible to enter the Galla countries, let alone reach Lake Rudolf, with less

than two or three hundred well-drilled followers.'

Smith hunted elephants, rhinoceros, leopards, and other wild game, and made

important natural history collections, discovering many new species of birds,

reptiles, plants.

"A noted explorer, naturalist, and game shot, Smith and his party explored the then

unknown region between Somaliland and Lake Rudolph. Starting from Berbera, they

traveled through the Ogaden where lions were bagged. Near the River Erer, rhinoceros,

lion, and leopard were hunted.  Traveling toward the Shebbeli River, kudu and lion were

collected, while near the Galana Amara, the party bagged additional elephant and rhino. 

As they approached Lake Rudolph, buffalo, waterbuck, and hippopotamus were hunted,

with elephant taken near Teleki volcano.  A handsome book with considerable hunting

content (Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books,1785-1950,p.150)."

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