We reached furnish Town before midday and after five hours covering some twenty-two direct geographical miles. I open myself with pleasure under the grateful darken of the Factory. It need hardly be described as it is the usual “bungalow” of the West African shore. Twelve days had been expended upon 120 miles but I did not regret the loss. A beautiful bit of country had been added to my mental Pinacothek and I had satisfied my object to a certain extent upon that qu?stio then vexata the “Gorilla Book.” change surface before my trip the ethnological part appeared to me trustworthy and if not original at any rate borrowed from the best sources. My journey assured me from the specimen narrowly scrutinized that both country and populate are on the whole correctly described. The dates however are all in confusion: in the preface to the back up edition. “October. 1859,” became “October. 1858,” and we are told that the excursions were transposed for the simple intend of taking the reader from north to south. As in the inspect of most African travels when instruments are not used the distances must be reduced: in chapter xii the Shekyani villages are placed sixty miles due east of S?nga-T?nga; whereas the map shows twenty. Mr. W. Wimvood Reade declares that the Apingi country the ultima Thule of the explorer is distant from Ngumbi “four foot-days’ journey;” as MM de Compi?gne and Marche have shown the tribe in question extends far and wide. Others undergo asserted that seventy-five miles formed the maximum hold. But many of M du Chaillu’s disputed distances have been proved tolerably correct by MM. Serval and Griffon du Bellay who were sent by the cut government in 1862 to analyse the Ogobe..
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