BURCHELL'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA.

Shortly will be published, in Quarto, Volume Second, Price £4. 14s. 6d.

OF

TRAVELS

IN

THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA.

BY

WILLIAM J. BURCHELL, Esq.

WITH A LARGE AND ENTIRELY NEW MAP, AND A HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN COLOURED AND BLACK ENGRAVINGS.

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THESE Travels were undertaken with the intention of exploring the unknown countries lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Portuguese Settlements on the Western Coast, by a circuitous track through the Interior Regions. The author, after penetrating into the heart of the Continent, to the depth of nearly 1100 miles, to a country never before described, met with obstacles which it was found impossible to surmount, and which compelled him to alter the original plan of his route. This alteration gave him an opportunity of acquiring the most complete information respecting the inhabitants of the most distant region, the nature and productions of the country, and many interesting particulars of the nations beyond. The object of the undertaking was not the mere gratification of vague curiosity; but an attentive investigation of every object which might be thought deserving the notice of a traveller; and it may readily be believed, that, on a journey continued nearly four years with these views, a multitude of facts hitherto unknown, and a greater mass of authentic information than has till now been laid before the public, have been collected. Besides the complete narrative of daily occurrences as far as the most distant town in the interior, and of the various transactions with the natives, this work will be found to contain a general account of the inhabitants, comprising their origin, population, government, warfare, policy, trade, and laws; the nature of their chief's

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authority; their religion or superstition, moral character, natural disposition, mental capacity, figure, cast of features, women, marriages, clothing, personal ornaments, utensils, disorders, modes of cure, language, food, agriculture, manufactures, arts, and amusements; architecture, domestic arrangements, and climate. It will also be found to contain interesting contributions to the Sciences of Zoology and Botany; above 63,000 objects of which were preserved and brought to England. Of these, a large collection of Quadrupeds have been presented to the British Museum. In the geography of the extra-tropical part of Southern Africa, a map founded on numerous astronomical observations, and of an entirely new construction, will be found to present considerable improvements, and to rectify many inaccuracies. Its size is 33 inches by 28. On the nature of the languages of these people, many particulars are given; nor have Geology, and the subject of Music, been neglected. The investigation of Man in an uncivilized state of society, will be found to offer a picture not altogether undeserving of attention. Neither is it superfluous here to notice that, in these pages, Modesty may read without fearing to meet with those descriptions and allusions which might raise a blush upon her cheek.

In the first volume, besides the travels among the tribes living beyond the boundary of the English settlement, there is a large portion of information respecting the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and an account of several excursions which intervened between the Author's first landing and the commencement of his principal journey into the Interior. Of the extension of civilization, and of the effects of missionary labors among the aboriginal inhabitants, both within and without the colonial limits, an impartial view is here given, in which those who are interested in the cause of religion and philanthropy may behold the subject in its true light. The scenes of nature and the manners of the ple are described with equal care; and by adhering in the narrative to the strict form of a Journal, the reader and the author are enabled to travel, as it were, the journey over again, and view in their proper light the facts in connexion, and the impression made by each event in succession: the object of this Journal being to convey a natural and faithful picture of passing scenes and trans

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In the Second Volume, will be found an interesting Account of the Native Tribes; with whom the Author lived on terms which gave him very favourable opportunities for discovering their true character. As his views in travelling were not confined to any particular class of observations, but were extended to whatever appeared likely to produce useful knowledge, his researches have embraced that variety of subjects which a journey, over ground never before trodden by European foot, and through the strange and unknown regions of Africa, might be expected to afford. The difficulties and privations attendant on an

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expedition of this nature, and the degree of success which may have rewarded the perilous labors it required, can only be known by a perusal of the Narrative; in which it will be seen, that the information now communicated to the Public, was not obtained without considerable personal risk and danger.

To each Volume are added an Itinerary and Register of the Weather; and, to render the whole more available for reference, and to collect under their proper heads the various Remarks which, by being noted in the regular order of a Diary, are necessarily scattered in different places, a General Index, together with a Zoological and Botanical Index, are given to complete the work. The whole of the Engravings which accompany it, have been faithfully copied from finished drawings made by the Author: those which are given with the First Volume, are,

A distant View of the Cape of Good Hope.
The Jutty, or landing Place, at Cape
Town.

The Castle-gate, at Cape Town.

A View of Cape Town, Table Bay, and
Tygerberg.

The Mountain Butterfly.
The Kukumakranki.

The Silver Tree.

View of a Part of Cape Town.
A Boor's Waggon and Oxen.
The Bath-house at Zwarteberg.
Tower-of-Babel Mountain.

The Rhinoceros-bush.

The Church at Genadendal.

Huts of the Hottentots at Genadendal.

The Village of Tulbagh.

The Drostdy at Túlbagh.

The Church at Stellenbosch.
The Cape Mistletoe.

Geometrical Drawing of the Waggon.
Portrait of Speelman, a Hottentot.
Section of the Waggon, and various Articles

appertaining to it.

Scene by Firelight, on the Journey; a
Station for the Night.

Crossing the Berg River.

Passing Roodezand Kloof.

The Karro-thorn, or Cape Acacia.
Cubic Pyrites of Iron.

Arrival at the Karró Pass.
Crossing the Karró.

A Bushman Chief and his Companion on
oxback.

A Boor's House in the Róggeveld Karró, with Sheep going out to Pasture.

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The Plates in this Work are engraved in the very best Style of the Art, from beautiful Drawings by J. M. W. TURNER, Esq. R.A., and Mr. BUCKLER. The Wood-cut Vignettes are by Messrs. BRANSTON, BONNER, HUGHES, &c.

INTERIOR VIEW OF THE KEEP OF RICHMOND CASTLE ..J. Buckler

...J. Buckler........Etched by J. Le Keux. .J. Buckler........ W. Lowry.

..J. M. W. Turner ..J. Archer.

GREY FRIARS TOWER, RICHMOND, South-east View....J. Buckler ........J. Pye.
ST. AGATHA'S ABBEY, EASEBY........... .........J M. W. Turner ..J. Le Keux.
INTERIOR VIEW OF THE HALL OF ST. AGATHA'S AB- J. Buckler........J. Pye.
BEY, EASEBY......

EASEBY ABBEY, Ground Plan

.T. Bradley........S. Hall.

ASKE HALL, the Seat of the Right Hon. Lord Dundas J. M. W. Turner ..J. Scott.

ROMALDKIRK CHURCH, South-east View...
HIGH FORCE OR FALL OF TEES........

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT ROKEBY......