Life, wanderings, and labours in Eastern Africa
Subtitle: with an account of the first successful ascent of the equatorial snow mountain, Kilima Njaro, and remarks upon East African slavery
By: by Charles New
Contributors: Hunt, T. W., active approximately 1850-1863
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; Missions
Other titles: Wanderings in Eastern Africa
Notes: Author was Christian missionary (United Methodist Free Church) in Kenya.

Portrait of author engraved by T. W. Hunt. Other illustrations have note: "Vincent Brooks Day & Son, lith.".

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Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Zanzibar; title: Suahili-land and the Wasuahili; title: Unika; title: Wanika; title: Life at Ribe; title: Journey to the Galla Country: preparatory; title: Bararetta; title: Weichu; title: On the Tana; title: We go to Ganda; title: Geography and ethnology; title: The journey to Kilima Njaro: the start; title: Through the wilderness; title: Life at Kisigau; title: The Taita Plains and Lake Jipe; title: Taveta; title: To Moche; title: Chaga; title: Ascent of Kilima Njaro; title: Kilima Njaro : second attempt; title: Eastern Chaga and the Lake Chala; title: Geography and ethnology again; title: Bura, Ndara, and the journey's end; title: East African slavery; title: Conclusion. The Livingstone expedition. Home; title: Appendix I: List of plants collected on the alpine region of Kilima Njaro; title: Appendix II: A table showing the variations in the dialects and languages spoken by some of the peoples inhabiting the regions laid down upon the map; title: Appendix III: Thermometrical notes showing the variations of temperature from the sea-board up to the line of perpetual snow.