Travels in Africa During the Years 1882-1886 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Travels in Africa During the Years 1882-1886 Nile, which place was reached on January lt, 1884. Hence the subsequent chapters, dealing with lands and events with which the English reader is already familiar from other and more recent sources, have here been subjected to considerable condensation. Dr. Junker will alway.e be regarded as a typical scientific explorer worthy to rank with such men as Barth, Wallace, Schweinfurth or Bates. Although untrained to astronomic observations, he prepared his intricate route surveys so carefully and with so many compass bearings, as illustrated in Chapter VII. Of the present volume, that these data, with some latitudes supplied from other sources, have sufficed for the construction of accurate maps of the regions traversed by him. It is also noteworthy that during all his ramblings in the welle-congo and Upper Nile lands he appears to have never directly or indirectly occasioned the loss of a single life. Like Livingstone, he moved about alone amongst the natives without armed escorts and accompanied only by his attendants and carriers. His ethnological studies of the populations about the Congo Nile water-parting are of the first importance. Although most of his ethnological and natural history collections appear to have fallen into the hands of the Mahdists, enough was rescued to form a prominent feature in the St. Petersburg and Berlin Museums. Amongst the many tokens of public recognition for his great services to the cause of geographical research, none were more highly prized by the illustrious traveller than his election as Honorary Corresponding Member of the Royal Geographical Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.