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The Unknown Horn of Africa (1888) (With active table of contents)

The Unknown Horn of Africa (1888) (With active table of contents)

Frank Linsly James
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"The Unknown Horn of Africa" is one of the most agreeable books of travel possible to be conceived. Good temper and forbearance, high courage and kindliness, seem to have uniformly characterized the relations of Mr. James and his companions with the aborigines of Somaliland, and makes themselves manifest, moreover, in every page of an exceptionally charming and instructive book.

Frank Linsly James FRGS was an English explorer who explored in Sudan, Somalia, India and Mexico often using his private yacht Lancashire Witch, often accompanied by one or both of his brother. Frank James wrote "Wild Tribes of the Sudan" and "The Unknown Horn of Africa" .

"The Unknown Horn of Africa" gives witness to the accomplishment of what may be termed one of the most interesting and difficult feats of all African travel. This is the journey of F. L. and W. D. James, who organised an expedition which started to cross the north-eastern angle of Africa from Berbera to Mogadoxo. The hostile disposition and uncertain temper of the Somali tribes who inhabit this wide region had previously offered invincible obstacles to its exploration by Europeans.

Much of the area traversed had been previously unmapped and unexplored. But the great feat of the expedition, apart from its geographical features, was in taking a caravan of a hundred people and over a hundred camels across a waterless waste to the comparatively fertile region on the Leopard River. For thirteen days the camels travelled without a drink, and only once, at the end of the ninth day, was a little dirty fluid like liquid mud found to replenish the exhausted water-bags.

The hostility of the natives to European travellers has hitherto rendered any extensive exploration of this country impossible, and the feat achieved by Mr. James and his party in 1885, in penetrating 300 miles southward from Berbera, has, we believe, never been equalled by previous expeditions. His goal was the Leopard River, or Webbe Shebeyli, reported to be a considerable stream watering a fertile country. The intervening region was found to be little better than a desert, the sparse and stunted vegetation, and extreme scantiness of the water supply rendering the march an anxious and arduous one.

Nothing indeed could have made it possible but the extreme endurance of the Somali camels, which were found capable of travelling for thirteen days without water. The rivers only flow in the rainy season,and the few wells are pools of dirty water. Judicious conduct on the part of the leaders averted the oft-threatened outbreaks of native hostility, and enabled them to return in safety from a country of which it has been said that " to be killed was the fate of nearly every white man who ventured into it."
Pages
182
Format
Kindle Edition

The Unknown Horn of Africa (1888) (With active table of contents)

Frank Linsly James
4.6/5 ( ratings)
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"The Unknown Horn of Africa" is one of the most agreeable books of travel possible to be conceived. Good temper and forbearance, high courage and kindliness, seem to have uniformly characterized the relations of Mr. James and his companions with the aborigines of Somaliland, and makes themselves manifest, moreover, in every page of an exceptionally charming and instructive book.

Frank Linsly James FRGS was an English explorer who explored in Sudan, Somalia, India and Mexico often using his private yacht Lancashire Witch, often accompanied by one or both of his brother. Frank James wrote "Wild Tribes of the Sudan" and "The Unknown Horn of Africa" .

"The Unknown Horn of Africa" gives witness to the accomplishment of what may be termed one of the most interesting and difficult feats of all African travel. This is the journey of F. L. and W. D. James, who organised an expedition which started to cross the north-eastern angle of Africa from Berbera to Mogadoxo. The hostile disposition and uncertain temper of the Somali tribes who inhabit this wide region had previously offered invincible obstacles to its exploration by Europeans.

Much of the area traversed had been previously unmapped and unexplored. But the great feat of the expedition, apart from its geographical features, was in taking a caravan of a hundred people and over a hundred camels across a waterless waste to the comparatively fertile region on the Leopard River. For thirteen days the camels travelled without a drink, and only once, at the end of the ninth day, was a little dirty fluid like liquid mud found to replenish the exhausted water-bags.

The hostility of the natives to European travellers has hitherto rendered any extensive exploration of this country impossible, and the feat achieved by Mr. James and his party in 1885, in penetrating 300 miles southward from Berbera, has, we believe, never been equalled by previous expeditions. His goal was the Leopard River, or Webbe Shebeyli, reported to be a considerable stream watering a fertile country. The intervening region was found to be little better than a desert, the sparse and stunted vegetation, and extreme scantiness of the water supply rendering the march an anxious and arduous one.

Nothing indeed could have made it possible but the extreme endurance of the Somali camels, which were found capable of travelling for thirteen days without water. The rivers only flow in the rainy season,and the few wells are pools of dirty water. Judicious conduct on the part of the leaders averted the oft-threatened outbreaks of native hostility, and enabled them to return in safety from a country of which it has been said that " to be killed was the fate of nearly every white man who ventured into it."
Pages
182
Format
Kindle Edition

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