Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-01-09

MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SouTH
AFRICA, Including n sketch Of sixteen wears resi-
dence in the interior Of Africa and II Journey from
the Cape Of Good Hope to Loando on the West Coast
thence across the continent down the river Iamhcs
to the Eastern Ocean BY David Livingstone. With
portrait, maps by Arrowsnith and numerous illus
trntons. svo. PIP. 1872 New York Harper
Brothers For sne in Bnttlebcro by W. Felton,
The interior Of Africa comprises vast extent #
country that has until very recent period remained
so entirely unknown that il has been labeled most
maps, Unexpored Regions" To penetrate this I'M
known country and even TO explore the Niger many
valuable lives have been sacrificed. The travels Of
Mungo Park, Ledynrd and Bruce, which were pcrused
with so much zcst in our younger days, only served
to whct our appetitos and sharpen enquiries for
further knowledge. During the last ten years severn,
travellers have explored nearly the whole continent
Harris in his +" Highlands OF Ethopia;" Cumming in
the South; Barth in North and Central Africa and
now Livingstone IN his journey from the Cape to the
Western coas, have laid open this great tropical CON
tinent tn the gaze Of the white During the next
ten years may expect that the Of every ry-
err and the altitude Of every mountain IN that country
will be as well known as are those Of our own, and
with this knowledge We will obtain trucr conceptions
Of the character Of tho dark skinned tribes OF men who
inlabit it. We hope that this knowledge will prove
beneficial to that country. aud that brighter day
will yet be hers, after the past long, dark night
DIR. Livingstone was peculiarly fitted fur his subse-
quent by his early tolls and harlships in sup
porting himself and acquiring his education. Engag.
ing IN the service of the London Missionary Society
--an organization that employed missionaries without
requiring them to belong to any denomination Of
Christians-he embarked for South Africa in 1870 and
landing at Cape Town proceeded inland and spent the
following sixteen wears in medical aud missionary la
bors rayersng extensive regions never before visited
by the white man The book is one ofihe most cap
tvatng description, in style simple but yet clear and
graphic, and in matter such other living trav-
elcrs experience could afford With reference to the
Doctors conclusions respecting the natives and ms
.ionary operations, the New York Courier i Enquirer
says:
"He gives even the Bushmen credit for no, being
such carcatures Of humanity they have been repre-
sented saying that they generally possess thin wiry
forms, capable great exeron and Of severe prva-
tion.. Many low stature, though not dwarfsh;
the specimens brough; to Europe have been selected
like co>;eunongers hogs on account If their extreme
uglness, consequently, Engsh ideas Of the whole tribe
formed in the way as II the uglies, speci-
mems Of the English were exhibited in Africa as char
acteristic Of the entire British nation With every
disposition he says pay due Difference to the opn-
ions OF those who have made ethnoiory their special
study have felt myself unable to believe that the ex-
aggcrlted features usually pu, forth as those Of the
typical negro characterize the majority Of any nation
Of South Central Africa He is very decided in the
belief tina, the color Of the African races produced
mainly by the peculiar heat and moisture Of the con
,nent. He also says that apsr; from the influences
Of elevation heat humidity and degradation, have
the lighter aud darker colors observed