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    After he leaves Tette the second portion of the author ' s perilous journey begins . He

    crosses the Zambesi , and almost at once finds himself in the land of uncouth tribes , while

    his companions were quite as uncouth as any of them . We might again ask the reader to take

    his pencil in hand and draw another wavelike lin — e _ on — the — map _ first _ north east and then due

    north through , j the Makanga country and through Angoniland to the shores of Lake

    Nyassa , at the mission station of Livingstonia . This placewhich the traveller had striven

    H b L , AM h K B M B B hard ^ ^ to reach , was found ^ ^ to . be ^ deserted ^ _ ^ ; all ^^ the missionaries had departedand desolation

    , seemed to reign supreme . Mr . Kerr vividly describes his experiences here . Deserted by

    all , and without food , his position was jyery precarious , while there was little prospect of

    the arrival of any relief . His account of the rescue by M . Giraud , the French explorer , is

    very stirring . A curio ^ us incident occurred in Livingstonia . The author was suddenly called to minister to the medical wants of a sick

    chief , who proved to be Chimlolo , one of Livingstone's companions when he first sighted

    Nyassa two decades ago . After his lamentable experiences in Livingstonia , the author was glad enough to leave

    the place in company , at last , with civilised beings . Adventures , however , were far from being run out ; for in canoeing down the Shire "

    river the party saw the finish of a war between the Portuguese native forces and the Mazinjiri tribe . The sad war scenes on the river give a

    melancholy interest to this part of Mr . Kerr ' s story . After a journey of nearly a year ' s

    duration V , Mr . Kerr at last V arrived at Quilli V - rnane on the east coast of Africa , and thence

    moved homewards to the old country . Throughout all this long journey , undertaken and accomplished aloneit might be

    expected that Mr . Kerr . would meet , with many strange experiences , and the reader of this book will not be disappointed J . J . if he expects A .

    to find descriptions of new and unheard-of scenes . The book is interesting to geograp hers , to missionaries , to travellers , to hunters ,

    to ethnologists , as much as to general readers , who will be loth to lay it aside once the reading is begun . Although the author does not

    speak like a ' twenty-years-in-the-countryknow know--the tne--lantrua language ^ e--sort sort--of ot--man man . ' his his observa

    obscrva-tionsscientific and otherwise , show that he has travelled , with all his faculties , fully awake .

    There is often a humorous ring about his descriptions of some of the men he encountered

    which contrasts singularly with the strongly- , marked recital of dangerous adventures , and

    the minuteness of detail when anything of importance in the resources of the country has to be noted . We selectfor examplean incident

    with one of the guides , . The traveller JL , has been sitting in a strange town for a long time , ga ^ ed

    at by the inhabitants and unable to speak . And so another hour passed silently away . Not

    a word was spoken , not a wyllablo addressed to any t o he ne of silence the party in a . most Misiri comical ( tha guide manner ) at last with broke a

    half-suppressed smile , he said to me : , , ' " W ell , you ' ve got here . '

    I here was something exceedingly funny about

    —^ the remark , for it meant so much . True I had the ' got p her lace e , ! ' but Now what the a situation struggle we seemed had had littl to e bette reaS I than wh en we were on the march . I H

    from to ^ decide As being we to had the warlike of people a surety , I that th been en our said long intentions that enough Misiri wer seatfd e had far I I

    I better beside He oesiae 1 /^ ^^ 4- £ ¦ ** immediatel 4 * * go ^* m v- ± on ^" v ^ h * b iat fat a *~* y forag 4 * and went ^^ ^ r % *~* ^^ A ancient ancient ing « ^*^ and ^^ m tonr ^ N ^^ took oia old — through ^ L . 1 . ^ up his the i ^ position town tvi I I ^^

    coating a a of very very grimy dirt ana told that her ladv lady occupation , . whose who ^ P thick . lay ; ! - I I in the agricultural line . I

    trying Good to Misiri effect had a purchase an eye . to Their business conversation : he was il I slowbut ultimatelboth

    was , . y they vanished to- I gether . My follower soon retiirned holding two I

    squalling hens . I noticed that his waistcloth was I almost - ™ — — — ' sort —— — gone f—^ of — ¦— - ; j onl — y m for a very - — — w small - —— — portion f ¦** ^ **— ¦«* ' « . « . remaining ^ viuvi Alii 1 JM ^ I ^ B

    as a "Where apology are your clothes an apron , Misiri . ? ' I inquired . I I * Buying ! ' was his laconic answer . I

    Bright little snatches of this kind abound I in the book . Other descriptions are of a I

    sadder nature , more vigorous , perhaps—as in I the case of the slave scenes—but all powerfulI

    seeming to have been wrung from the author , I by the intensity of his feelings and the wild- I

    ness ¦ of his experiences . In conclusion , we may remark upon the I excellence of the spirited illustrations , the new I and clear map of the country traversedand I

    the admirable way in which the book has , bee ? I produced . I lOl >¦

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    T ^ 1228 ¦ The Publishers' Circular 0 = t ¦ " — - . i ^ H

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1886, page 1228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101886/page/6/