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Mary H. Kingsley Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism. Kingsley was born in Islington, London on 13 October 1862, the daughter and oldest child of doctor, traveler, and writer George Kingsley and Mary Bailey. She came from a family of writers, as she was also the niece of novelists Charles Kingsley and Henry Kingsley. The family moved to Highgate less than a year after her birth, the same home where her brother Charles George R. ("Charley") Kingsley was born in 1866, and by 1881 were living in Southwood House, Bexley in Kent. [more]

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James Bryce Impressions Of South Africa (Fiscle Part-Xii) Part 2

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From Fort Salisbury To The Sea--Manicaland And The Portuguese Territories. In Africa, Moisture Is Everything. It Makes The Difference Between Fertility And Barrenness; It Makes The Difference Between A Cheerful And A Melancholy Landscape. As One Travels North-Eastward From Palapshwye To Bulawayo, And From Bulawayo To Fort Salisbury, One Passes By Degrees From An Arid And Almost Rainless Land To A Land Of Showers And Flowing Waters. In Bechuanaland There Are, Except For Three Months In The Year, No Streams At All. In Matabililand One Begins To Find Perennial Brooks. In Mashonaland There Are At Last Rivers, Sometimes With Rocky Banks And Clear Deep Pools, Which (Like That Just Mentioned) Tempt One To Bathe And Risk The Terrible Snap Of A Crocodile's Jaws. Thus Eastern Mashonaland Is Far More Attractive Than The Countries Which I Have Described In The Last Two Chapters. It Has Beautiful And Even Striking Scenery. The Soil, Where The Granitic Rocks Do Not Come Too Near The Surface, Is Usually Fertile, And Cultivation Is Easier Than In The Regions To The South-West, Because The Rains Are More Copious. [more]

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