Travels in the Interior of South Africa

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The narratives of Travel comprehended within these volumes extend, as will be seen, over a lengthened period, and cover a wide area of the African continent. With, indeed, a single great and striking exception - whose name is on everyone's lips, and whose fate engages at the present moment the hopeful expectations of civilized mankind in every quarter of the globe - no traveller can pretend to an acquaintance with the interior of Southern Africa, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Indian Ocean, and from the Cape to the Zambesi, so prolonged in duration, and so varied in range, as the Author of these volumes. If Mr. Chapman's records of personal experience, acquired in the pursuits of the hunter and trader, lay for the most part no claim to the merits that belong to original investigation or discovery, they at least embody the results of prolonged and intelligent observation, directed, during many years, towards regions, many of which have hitherto been seldom visited by civilized man, and towards native races whose social life presents a highly interesting problem of inquiry to all.