Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa : in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney : extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of northern latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Fellatah empire : with an appendix ... / by Major Dixon Denham and Captain Hugh Clapperton, of the Royal Navy, the survivors of the expedition

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Notes: The appendix (p. [139]-269 at end) contains: No. i-xvi. Translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought from Bornu and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton by A. Salame -- No. xvii-xx. Bornu. Begharmi, Mandara and Timbuctoo vocabularies -- No. xxi. Zoology -- No. xxii. Botanical appendix by Robert Brown -- No. xxiii. Letter to Major Denham on rock specimens ... by Charles König -- No. xxiv. Thermometrical journal kept in Kouka and Bornu.; London : Printed by Thomas Davison"--Verso of t.p.; Plates are signed: Drawn by Major Denham of Captn. Claperton [sic], engraved by E. Finden.

Author: Denham, Dixon 1786-1828; Clapperton, Hugh 1788-1827; Oudney, Walter 1790-1824; Salamé, Abraham V; Brown, Robert 1773-1858; König, Carl Dietrich Eberhard 1774-1851
former owner: Fergusson, Robert 1768-1840 DSI
Author: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI

Physical description: xlviii [i.e. lxviii], 335, [5], 269, [3] p., [38] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps, facsim. ; 28 cm