'FROM THE ARCHIVE OF HENRY MORTON STANLEY'
WILSON, Charles Thomas, and Robert William FELKIN.
Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan ...
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882.
Two vols, 8vo, pp. I: x, [2], 372, 32 (publisher’s advertisements); II: vii, [1], 379, [1], with 1 folding table and 3 folding maps; numerous illustrations in the text (some full-page); occasional light creasing to corners, a very few light marks, closed tear to final map; overall very good in original pictorial brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, upper covers lettered in black with block printed map, black endpapers; some wear to extremities and a few marks to boards; bookplate in vol. I ‘Purchased from the archive of Henry Morton Stanley London 2002'.
First edition, ‘from the archive’ of the great explorer Henry Morton Stanley, of this account of Sudan and Uganda by the medical missionary and explorer (and magician) Dr Robert Felkin (1853–1926) and the Rev. Charles Wilson.
Wilson’s narrative includes chapters on Zanzibar, ‘life in Uganda’, ‘government and language of the Waganda’, and ‘voyage to Kagei and shipwreck’, while Felkin’s account covers his journey from Suakim to Dufli to Rubaga. The appendices encompass trade, plants, vocabularies of various local languages, and meteorological observations.
Felkin’s and Wilson’s presence in the region owed much to Stanley, as they acknowledge in their preface: ‘In March 1875 the well-known American traveller, Stanley, while staying in Uganda, wrote a letter ... [in which he] spoke of the promising field for missionary labour which Uganda, with its enlightened ruler and intelligent people, afforded, and made an earnest appeal to the English nation to evangelize this place.’
Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 230.
