Wanderings and Adventures in the Interior of Southern Africa - Andrew Steedman (Part 2)

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Africana Collectanea Series

The excursions to which the following pages refer were undertaken at different intervals by the author, principally for amusement and information during a residence of ten years at the Cape.

In the course of his Wanderings he traversed a considerable portion of the interior of Southern Africa, and succeeded in obtaining an extensive collection of its productions in Natural History, among which were several new and undescribed animals; the incidents and adventures that occurred were preserved in a journal not originally mended for any purpose beyond that of private reference and the amusement of a few friends, to whom a relation of events connected with these journeys might be matter of interest.

On the authors return to England however with the specimens of Natural History which he had collected, numerous and repeated inquiries were made relative to the inhabitants of the country whence these specimens were brought: this circumstance, together with the interest recently excited towards this quarter of the world, suggested the idea of preparing his journal for publication.