Africa

First Footsteps in East Africa

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890· 2 chapters· 120,731 words

I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West. The more adventurous Abyssinian travellers, Salt and Stuart, Krapf and Isenberg, Barker and Roc...