The Kilma-Njaro expedition : a record of scientific exploration in eastern equatorial Africa and a general description of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro district / by H.H. Johnson, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., Memb. Anthrop. Institute, etc., leader of the expedition, author of "The river Congo from its mouth to Bólóbó."
- Bib ID:
- 6847802
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927, author
- Online Access:
- Gale Cengage Learning, Nineteenth Century Collections Online
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- Description:
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- London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1886
- 1 online resource (xv, 572 pages, 19 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portrait, 6 maps (2 folded).
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature.
- Full contents:
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- Introductory
- Sir John Kirk at home
- The start: Mombasa to Taita
- Taita to Kilima-Njaro
- Arrival at Mandara's court
- My first settlement on Kilima-Njaro
- "Halcyon days"
- Troublous times
- An anxious period
- A trip to Taveita
- A first ascent
- A move to Maraṅu
- A second ascent
- Through the forests of Kimawenzi and the country of Rombo
- Lake J̌ipé and the road to Gonǰa
- Gonǰa to London
- Climate, geology, botany, &c.
- [Appendix to chapter XVII: Enumeration of the plants collected by Mr. H.H. Johnston on the Kilima-Njaro expedition, 1884 / by Professor Oliver, F.R.S., and Mr. J.G. Baker]
- Zoology
- [Appendices to chapter XVIII: Note on a nematoid worm (Gordius verrucosus) obtained by Mr. H.H. Johnston on Kilima-Njaro / by F. Jeffrey Bell ; Description of a new variety of river-crab of the Genus Thelphusa, from Kilima-Njaro / by E.J. Miers ; A list of the Lepidoptera collected by Mr. H.H. Johnston during his recent expedition to Kilima-Njaro / by F.D. Godman ; On the insects collected on Kilima-Njaro by Mr. H.H. Johnston / by Chas. O. Waterhouse ; List of birds collected or observed on Kilima-Njaro and its vicinity / by Captain G.E. Shelley and Mr. H.H. Johnston ; List of mammals obtained and observed on Mount Kilima-Njaro and its vicinity / by Oldfield Thomas, with a few additional notes by the author]
- Anthropology
- The languages of the Kilima-Njaro district: Masai; The Bantu languages of Kilima-Njaro
- The commercial prospects of eastern equatorial Africa.
- Notes:
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- "With six maps and over eighty illustrations by the author."
- Two of the maps signed: "H. H. Johnston del.", "Edw.d Weller" and the last one taken from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society.
- "Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, Limited"--Title page verso.
- Republished in 1968 by Gregg International Publishers limited.
- Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Weller, Edward, -1884, author
- Oliver, Daniel, 1830-1916, author
- Baker, John Gilbert, 1834-1920, author
- Bell, F. J. (Francis Jeffrey), 1855-1924, author
- Miers, Edward J. (Edward John), 1851-1930, author
- Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919, author
- Waterhouse, Charles Owen, 1843-1917, author
- Shelley, G. E. (George Ernest), 1840-1910, author
- Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929, author
- Also Titled:
- Kilimanjaro expedition
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