Excerpt from Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and ZoologyThe Narrative of these successive Travels and Expeditions has been contributed by Mr. Hugh Mur ray. The Geological Illustrations have been fur hished by the justly celebrated Professor Jameson, and for the interesting and very ample account of its Natural History the reader is indebted to Mr. James Wilson, author of Illustrations of Zoology, and the principal contributor in that branch of science to the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.