First footsteps in East Africa

or, An Exploration of Harar

by

Richard Burton

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2009

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Table of Contents

Preface.

Chapter:

  1. Departure from Aden.
  2. Life in Zayla.
  3. Excursions near Zayla.
  4. The Somal, their Origin and Peculiarities.
  5. From Zayla to the Hills.
  6. From the Zayla Hills to the Marar Prairie.
  7. From the Marar Prairie to Harar.
  8. Ten Days at Harar.
  9. A Ride to Berberah.
  10. Berberah and its Environs.

Postscript.

Appendix.

  1. Diary and Observations made by Lieutenant Speke, when attempting to reach the Wady Nogal.
  2. Harari Language.
  3. Meteorological Observations in the Cold Season of 1854-5, by Lieutenants Herne, Stroyan, and Burton.
  4. [omitted].
  5. A condensed account of an attempt to reach Harar From Ankobar.

[Illustration: HARAR FROM THE COFFE STREAM]

TO THE HONORABLE JAMES GRANT LUMSDEN, MEMBER OF COUNCIL, ETC. ETC. BOMBAY.

I have ventured, my dear Lumsden, to address you in, and inscribe to you, these pages. Within your hospitable walls my project of African travel was matured, in the fond hope of submitting, on return, to your friendly criticism, the record of adventures in which you took so warm an interest. Dis aliter visum! Still I would prove that my thoughts are with you, and thus request you to accept with your wonted bonhommie this feeble token of a sincere good will.

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