Publisher's Synopsis
Title: Narrative of an Expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816 under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R.N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing the natural history of that part of the kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. (Observations on Professor C. Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the river Congo, by R. Brown.) [Edited by Sir J. Barrow.]
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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British Library
Tuckey, James Hingston; Barrow, John;
1818.
lxxxii. 498 p.; 4°.
147.f.1.
