To Victoria Falls
BAINES, Thomas.
Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.
8vo, pp. xiv, 457, [390]–[457], 458–535, [1]; with chromolithograph frontispiece, 8 wood-engraved plates, 3 folding maps, and numerous illustrations in the text; second map very creased, short tear to third map, a little light foxing, occasional small marks and creases to corners, but overall a good copy; in contemporary calf by Rivingtons, spine gilt in compartments with lettering-piece; some wear to extremities and rubbing to boards; arms of Lucton School in blind to upper cover.
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Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls.
First edition. ‘The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives. It is stated that Livingstone, who had travelled over some of these regions, was often indistinctly understood by the natives, and that he had made errors in consequence, the natives themselves averring that Scotchmen, however perfectly they may understand the language of the country, invariably speak it with an idiom that renders them more or less unintelligible’ (Mendelssohn).
Mendelssohn, South African bibliography I, p. 69; Theal, Catalogue of books … relating to Africa, p. 17.