Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... 145 APPENDIX. No. 1. Some particulars of the Expedition lately dispatched from Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, for the purpose of exploring Central Africa.--Account of the Progress of Discovery in South Africa, up to the period of the departure of the Expedition. Within the last few years a vast fund of information has been obtained, relative to the country lying to the north and east of Litakou, from the various trading parties who have from time to time succeeded in exploring those regions which have so long lain as a blank on all our Maps of Southern Africa. A-party, under the direction of Messrs. Hume and Muller, returned to the colony in 1833, after having been absent nearly two years, during which period they succeeded in penetrating to the tropic; and from the favourable descriptions given of the country and its productions, a party of gentlemen, members of the South African Literary and Scientific Institution, were induced to form an association in Cape Town, under the patronage of his Excellency Sir Lowry Cole, then Governor of the Cape, for the purpose of sending a scientific expedition to explore those regions, with the object of elucidating their geography, the nature of their productions, and the advantages they might offer to VOL. II. L commercial enterprise. In July, 1834, the party who had undertaken this bold and hazardous enterprise, left Cape Town under the direction of Dr. A. Smith, assistant staff surgeon, a distinguished naturalist of great talent and experience, appointed by the committee as director of the expedition. The departure of this expedition appears from the colonial papers to have created an unusual degree of interest throughout the Colony, as will be seen by the following extract of a letter, published in...
