TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD
Reading edition
A Personal Narrative
By Richard F. Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
In Two Volumes—Vol. I.
TO OUR EXCELLENT FRIEND
JAMES IRVINE
(OF LIVERPOOL, F.R.G.S, F.S.A, &C.)
WE INSCRIBE THESE PAGES AS A TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION AND ADMIRATION FOR HIS COURAGE AND ENERGY IN OPENING AND WORKING THE GOLDEN LANDS OF WESTERN AFRICA
'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold'
SHAKESPEARE
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD.
CHAPTER I. — PRELIMINARY: TRIESTE TO LISBON.
CHAPTER II. — FROM LISBON TO MADEIRA.
CHAPTER III. — A FORTNIGHT AT MADEIRA.
CHAPTER IV. — MADEIRA (continued)—CHRISTMAS—SMALL INDUSTRIES—
CHAPTER V. — TO TENERIFE, LA LAGUNA, AND OROTAVA.
CHAPTER VI. — THE ROUTINE ASCENT OF MOUNT ATLAS, THE 'PIKE' OF TENERIFE.
CHAPTER VII. — THE SPANISH ACCOUNT OF THE REPULSE OF NELSON FROM SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE.
CHAPTER VIII. — TO GRAND CANARY—LAS PALMAS, THE CAPITAL.
CHAPTER IX. — THE COCHINEAL—THE 'GALLO'—CANARY 'SACK'—ADIEU TO THE CANARIES.
CHAPTER X. — THE RUINED RIVER-PORT AND THE TATTERED FLAG.
CHAPTER XI. — SIERRA LEONE: THE CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.