LIVINGSTONE'S AFRICA.

PERILOUS ADVENTURES AND EXTENSIVE DISCOVERIES

IN THE

INTERIOR OF AFRICA,

From the Personal Narrative

OF

DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., D.C.L.,

TOGETHER WITH

THE REMARKABLE SUCCESS AND IMPORTANT RESULTS

OF THE

HERALD-STANLEY EXPEDITION,

AS FURNISHED BY H. M. STANLEY, ESQ.,

COMPLETE RELIABLE AND GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE EXTENSIVE EXPLORATIONS, IMPOR-
TANT DISCOVERIES AND THRILLING ADVENTURES OF THE GREATEST EXPLORER OF MODERN
TIMES, IN THE RICHEST AND WILDEST COUNTRY UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH,
AMONG SAVAGE MEN, FEROCIOUS BEASTS, DEADLY REPTILES, POISONOUS INSECTS,
ETC., ETC., COVERING A PERIOD OF NEARLY TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, AND
INCLUDING A FULL AND GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE HERALD-STANLEY
EXPEDITION, AND WHAT IT EXPERIENCED AND ACCOMPLISHED,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

which is added a Sketch of other Important Discoveries in Africa,

INCLUDING

THE CELEBRATED DIAMOND DIGGINGS AT COLESBERG KOPJE,

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS

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PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

THE interest taken in modern times in books of travel is significant of the growing feeling of sympathy with all manifestations of human activity. The railroad and the telegraph have brought the most distant nations into closer commercial and social relations than it was possible to create, even fifty years ago. The nations of the East, India, China, Japan, Turkey, have all begun to feel the need of opening their gates to the advent of civilization. Even the tribes of Central Africa have been made better acquainted with the rest of the world, through the labors of recent explorers, than they have ever been before. Among these travellers, who have devoted the best energies of their lives in exploring these hitherto inaccessible countries, the most distinguished is Doctor Livingstone. His enthusiasm, his real Christian charity, his devotion to the abolition of the slave trade-that curse of Africa-have made the accounts of his explorations peculiarly interesting to all classes of intelligent readers. The publishers of this volume, therefore, present it to the public with confidence. It contains, in a compact form, the history of all of Doctor Livingstone's voyages of discovery, and at a price which will enable those to possess it

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who could not afford to purchase the expensive volumes in which the results of his explorations were originally published. Nothing has been omitted that would be of interest to the general reader. Only such records of scientific observations, as would be of use only to the special students in their various branches of scientific research, are not here reproduced. • The accounts, from Doctor Livingstone himself, of his successive voyages; the origin of the reports of his death; the result of the search expedition, sent out by the New York Herald, under Mr. Stanley; the letters in which Doctor Livingstone narrates what he was doing while the world supposed him dead; the results of his discoveries, and what he expects to do to complete his life-long devotion to African exploration, will be found in the pages of this volume, told with that charm of simplicity of style which has made his former narrations so interesting and popular.

Of the style in which the volume is prepared, and for which the publishers are responsible, they feel it unnecessary to say more than that no care or pains have been spared upon it. The book will speak for itself; and they feel assured that their efforts to please will be duly appreciated by the public.