TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EASTERN AFRICA:

2 volumes (xiii, 291 pages; 335 pages): portraits (2 as frontispieces), folding map (in volume 1). (Van Riebeeck Society publications. First series; 16 & 17). Pict. cloth, slightly browned on spines. Name stamp on front free end-paper (volume 1). Reprint of the 1836 edition.

Isaacs accompanied Lieutenant King on his voyage to Natal in search of King's friends, Lieutenant Farewell and Francis Fynn. The former were shipwrecked in Natal Bay and while the crew built another ship, Isaacs ventured inland to visit Shaka's royal kraal. He records his impressions of the Zulu people and their customs which are particularly interesting as they are an accurate account of the Zulu people before they encountered European influence. He lived in daily contact with Shaka and was treated with favour, having rank and honours conferred upon him, as well as a large tract of land.