First Footsteps in East Africa/Appendices



APPENDIX III METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN THE COLD SEASON OF 1854-5, BY LIEUTENANTS HERNE, STROYAN, AND BURTON. [Editor's note: This appendix contains tables of numbers that are too wide to be reproduced accurately following PG standards.]

APPENDIX IV. It has been found necessary to omit this Appendix. [Editor's note: This appendix, written in Latin by Burton, contained descriptions of sexual customs among certain tribes. It was removed by the publisher of the book, who apparently considered it to be too risque for the Victorian public.]

APPENDIX V. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF AN ATTEMPT TO REACH HARAR FROM ANKOBAR. The author is Lieutenant, now Commander, WILLIAM BARKER of the Indian Navy, one of the travellers who accompanied Sir William Cornwallis, then Captain, Harris on his mission to the court of Shoa. His services being required by the Bombay Government, he was directed by Captain Harris, on October 14th, 1841, to repair to the coast via Harar, by a road "hitherto untrodden by Europeans." These pages will reward perusal as a narrative of adventure, especially as they admirably show what obstacles the suspicious characters and the vain terrors of the Bedouins have thrown in the way of energy and enterprise.

