Travels, researches, and missionary labours, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa : together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum, and a coasting voyage from Nombaz to Cape Delgado / by the Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Krapf, secretary of the Chrishona Institute at Basel, and late missionary in the service of the Church Missionary Society in Eastern and Equatorial Africa, et cetera, et cetera ; with an appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of Eastern Africa, the sources of the Nile, the languages of Abessinia and eastern Africa, et cetera, et cetera, and a concise account of geographical researches in eastern Africa up to the discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone, in September last, by E.G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881, author.

Ravenstein, Ernst Georg, 1834-1913, author.

Contributor:

Lämmel, M., engraver.

Brooks, Vincent, 1815?-1885, lithographer.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881--Travel--Africa, East.

Krapf, J. L.

Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881.

Missions.

Discoveries in geography.

Travel.

Africa, East--Description and travel.

Africa, East.

Africa, East--Discovery and exploration.

Ethiopia--Description and travel.

Ethiopia.

Missions--Africa, East.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (li, 566 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates (some color)) : illustrations, 2 folded maps, portrait.

Other Title:

Travels, researches, and missionary labours in Eastern Africa

Place of Publication:

London : Trübner and Company, 1860.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction. A concise account of geographical discovery in Eastern Africa, et cetera / by E.G. Ravenstein

Introduction. Reasons for publication: design and plan

Part I. Researchs and missionary labours. Extracts from journals. Autobiographical ; To Adowa and Ankober ; Residence in Shoa ; Shoa and the Shoans ; The unexplored countries to the south of Shoa ; Ormania and the Gallas ; From Ankober to Massowa ; From Aden to Zanzibar ; Mombaz: Excursions on the main-land ; Rabbai Mpia: Extracts from journals ; Extracts from journals continued ; Close of residence in Eastern Africa: Return home

Part II. Travels in Eastern Africa: Kadiaro, Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani. Rebmann's journey to Kadiaro ; Rebmann's first journey to Jagga ; Rebmann's second journey to Jagga ; Rebmann's third journey to Jagga ; The author's first journey to Usambara ; First journey to Ukambani ; Second journey to Ukambani ; Second journey to Ukambani continued ; Second journey to Usambara

Part III. Geography, topography, and history: the south Suahili Coast. Voyager from Mombaz to Cape Delgado ; From Jerusalem to Gondar ; From Gondar to Cairo ; Conclusion

Supplementary chapter: Summary of East-African history

Appendix: Geographical and literary.

Notes:

"With an appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of Eastern Africa; the sources of the Nile; the languages and literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc. etc. and a concise account of geographical researches in Eastern Africa up to the discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone in September last, by E.G. Ravenstein."

"With portrait, maps, and illustrations of scenery and costume."

Frontispiece portrait of the author signed: M. Lämmel ac Leipzig.

Plates signed: Vincent Brooks, lith, King St. Covant Garden.

"William Stevens, printer"--Title page verso.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

904539089

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