Green marbled boards, 57 pages. A chart of the journey undertaken by De Mist at rear. Three black and white portraits. Introduction by Edmund H. Burrows.
Julie Philippe Augusta de Mist was an eighteen-year-old girl when she sailed from Texel in July, 1802, to accompany her father to the Cape of Good Hope.
On 9 October 1803, Jacob Abraham de Mist, Commissioner General, left Cape Town on a 167 day journey into the interior, accompanied by his daughter, Augusta, and a few others. The travelling party first went northwards to Saldahna and St. Helena Bay, and then to Calvinia, Sutherland and Tulbagh, Swellendam and Mossel Bay, to Algoa Bay and the junction of the Great and Little Fish Rivers, Graaff-Reinet, via Beaufort West, Prince Albert and Worcester on their way back to Cape Town, which they reached on 23 March 1804.
Augusta's travel journal, which recorded this journey, was later published in French as Relation d'un voyage en Afrique et en Amerique, par Madam... This English edition was translated by Dr. Edmund Burrows in 1954. (https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/jacob-abraham)
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (210 x 130 mm)
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