Category: Travel Writing
On Monday, January 5, 1857, began our trial trip, which homely term was justly written large as ‘tentative expedition,’ by the then President of the Royal Geographical Society. But a stiff north-easter blowing dead in our teeth, the crew of the Riámi would not wear round by da...
On Monday, January 5, 1857, began our trial trip, which homely term was justly written large as ‘tentative expedition,’ by the then President of the Royal Geographical Society....
7. CHAPTER II.‘Est autem urbs illa sita intra sinum quemdam in rupe præcelsâ et editâ. Fluctus cùm se ab introitu sinus incitant, in adversam frontem urbis incurrunt. Inde deducti introrsus p...
8. CHAPTER III.Tremolavano i rai del sol nascente Sovra l’onde del mar purpuree e d’oro, E in vesti di zaffiro il ciel ridente, Specchiar parea le sue bellezze in loro. D’Africa i venti fieri...
9. CHAPTER IV.In 1844 Dr Krapf allowed the population of Mombasah town, without its dependencies, to be 8000 to 10,000. In 1846 M. Guillain reduced it to 2500 or 3000 souls, not including a g...
10. CHAPTER V.Not a head of game, not a hippopotamus, was to be found near Mombasah. We finished our geographical inquiries; shook hands with divers acquaintances; re-shipped, after sundry li...
11. CHAPTER VI.Ma tutta insieme poi tra verdi sponde In profondo canal l’acqua s’aduna, E sotto l’ombra di perpetua fronde Mormorando sen va gelida e bruna; Ma transparente si, che non asconde...
12. CHAPTER VII.On February 10, after a night of deep wilderness-silence, we arose betimes, and applied ourselves to the task of porterage. The luggage was again reduced—now to the very lowest...
13. CHAPTER VIII.‘Wasteful, forth Walks the dire Power of pestilent disease. A thousand hideous fiends her course attend, Sick nature blasting, and to heartless woe And feeble desolation, castin...
14. CHAPTER IX.A heroic treatment of quinine, beginning with 20-grain doses, and ending with two grains, per diem, and a long course of stomachic chiretta—the Kirait which the Goanese drink, f...
15. CHAPTER X.At length came the moment for departure—June 17, 1858. We had learned what we wanted to learn on the seaboard, whilst at Zanzibar Island no further information was to be procure...
16. CHAPTER XI.The Zanzibar coast was, at the time of our return to it, in a very uncomfortable state. Cholera, for the first time, had swept southwards from Arabia, decimating the East Africa...
17. CHAPTER XII.I fully recognize the difficulty of writing a chapter with such a heading. Whatever is spoken will be deemed by some better unspoken; whilst others would wish me to say much tha...