Research Catalog

Title

Travels, researches, and missionary labors, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa : together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum, and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado / by the Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Krapf, secretary of the Crishona Institute at Basel, and late missionary in the service of the Church Missionary Society in Eastern and Equatorial Africa, etc. etc. ; with an appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of Eastern Africa. the sources of the Nile, the languages and literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc. etc. and a concise account of geographical researches in Eastern Africa up to the discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone in September last, by E.J. [i.e. G.] Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. ; with portrait, maps, and illustrations of scenery and costume.

Author

Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881.

Publication

London : Trübner and Co., Paternoster Row, 1860.

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Additional Authors

• Ravenstein, Ernst Georg, 1834-1913.
• Stevens, William (Printer)
• Trübner & Co., publisher.

Description

li, [2], 566 p., [15] leaves of plates (2 folded) : col. ill., maps, port.; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Africa, Eastern > Description and travel
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Africa, East > Description and travel
• Ethiopia > Description and travel
• Missions > Africa, East
• Missions > Africa, Eastern

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "London: William Stevens, printer, 37, Bell Yard, Temple Bar."--printer statement, verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "L.P. Griffin July 1860." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction: A concise account of geographical discovery in Eastern Africa, etc. / by E.G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. ; Reasons for publication, design and plan -- pt. 1. Researches and missionary labours. Extracts from journals: ch. 1. Autobiographical ; ch. 2. To Adowa and Ankober ; ch. 3. Residence in Shoa ; ch. 4. Shoa and the Shoans ; ch. 5. The unexplored countries to the south of Shoa ; ch. 6. Ormania and the Gallas ; ch. 7. From Ankober to Massowa ; ch. 8. From Aden to Zanzibar ; ch. 9. Mombaz: excursions on the mainland ; ch. 10. Rabbai Mpia: extracts from journals ; [there is no ch. 11.] ; ch. 12. Extracts from journals continued ; ch. 13. Close of residence in Eastern Africa. Return home -- pt. 2. Travels in Eastern Africa. Kadiaro, Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani: ch. 1. Rebmann's journey to Kadiaro ; ch. 2. Rebmann's first journey to Jagga ; ch. 3. Rebmann's second journey to Jagga ; ch. 4. Rebmann's third journey to Jagga ; ch. 5. The author's first journey to Usambara ; ch. 6. First journey to Ukambani ; ch. 7. Second journey to Ukambani ; ch. 8. Second journey to Ukambani continued ; ch. 9. Second journey to Usambara -- pt. 3. Geography, topography, and history. The south Suahili coast: ch. 1. Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado ; ch. 2. From Jerusalem to Gondar ; ch. 3. From Gondar to Cairo ; ch. 4. Conclusion -- supp. ch. Summary of East African history -- Appendix: Geographical and literary.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.76-K (Krapf, J. L. Travels, researches, and missionary labors)

LCCN

05008172

OCLC

• 4396091
• NYPGR4396091-B

Author

Krapf, J. L. (Johann Ludwig), 1810-1881.

Title

Travels, researches, and missionary labors, during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa : together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum, and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado / by the Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Krapf, secretary of the Crishona Institute at Basel, and late missionary in the service of the Church Missionary Society in Eastern and Equatorial Africa, etc. etc. ; with an appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of Eastern Africa. the sources of the Nile, the languages and literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc. etc. and a concise account of geographical researches in Eastern Africa up to the discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone in September last, by E.J. [i.e. G.] Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. ; with portrait, maps, and illustrations of scenery and costume.

Imprint

London : Trübner and Co., Paternoster Row, 1860.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.76-K (accession no. B526904) inscribed: in ink on title page "L.P. Griffin July 1860." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 916.76-K has plate meant to face p. 121, "Zanzibar", bound facing p. 161; copy is imperfect: lacking plate meant to face p. 156, "Rabbai Mpia." NN

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Added Author

Ravenstein, Ernst Georg, 1834-1913.

Trübner & Co., publisher.

Stevens, William (Printer), printer.

Griffin, L. P., active 1860, former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.76-K (Krapf, J. L. Travels, researches, and missionary labors)

Stuart 6939