or, Eighteen Months on H.M.S. "Gorgon," engaged in the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa.
Including a Trip up the Zambesi with Dr Livingstone.
xv, 421 pages, folding partly hand coloured map, original blue cloth gilt with the endpapers intact, page edges uncut. The cloth is slightly darkened on the spine and binding is leaning, contents good.
Czech (Dr K.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (Agoura, Los Angeles 2011), page 80, ‘The ‘Gorgon’ was a paddle wheel sloop dispatched to the east coast of Africa to stop the illegal slave trade in the region. The vessel made its way up the Zambesi to meet the famous missionary explorer, David Livingstone. During the journey the sailors enjoyed a little sport with hunts after waterbuck, buffalo and hippo.’
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