TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA: BEING A JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H.B.M.’S GOVERNMENT, IN THE YEARS 1849-1855.

BY HENRY BARTH, Ph.D., D.C.L. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL AND ASIATIC SOCIETIES, &c. &c.

IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. I.

LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 1857.

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CLARENDON, K.G., G.C.B. ETC. ETC. ETC. HER MAJESTY’S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THESE VOLUMES, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA, MADE UNDER HIS LORDSHIP’S AUSPICES, ARE, IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR MANY ACTS OF KINDNESS, Dedicated, BY HIS OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR,

D^R. BARTH’S TRAVELS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA Sheet N^o. 1. GENERAL SKETCH of AFRICA, Showing the ROUTES OF D^R. BARTH’S TRAVELS 1850-1855. Drawn by A. Petermann. Engraved by E. Weller. London, Longman & C^o.