PAPERS READ
BEFORE THE
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
DURING THE SESSION 1863-64.
[Forming Vol. XXXIV. of the Society’s Journal. Published May 22nd, 1865.]
The following account of the elevated country of Djagga, and its principal mountain Kilima-ndjaro, has been written almost entirely from memory, aided by the map[1] which I brought with me; my journals and memoranda having been left behind in Zanzibar, it being my intention to make a second journey into Eastern Africa.
I pass over my first unsuccessful journey from Kilua, in November and December, 1860, when I endeavoured to reach the spot, in the vicinity of Lake Nyassa, where the unfortunate Dr. Röscher was murdered. There was but little of interest in that expedition, but it pretty plainly showed with what disadvantage an inexperienced European traveller has to struggle, and how great is the hatred and contempt entertained for white men, and especially for Christians by the Negroes, who are there called the “Arabs of the coast.” In like manner I refrain from making more than a passing allusion to my first journey to Djagga (in which I had for my companion the late Mr. Richard Thornton, whose death I have more and more occasion to lament), inasmuch as my second tour, in which I again visited the mountain of Kilima–ndjaro, led me over precisely the same ground, though with more important results. The last-named circumstance is due to the fact that the instruments I had with me on the last occasion were better, and that Dr. Kärsten, a pupil of the well-known Professor Erman,
- ↑ The map was drawn from the orignal sketch by Mr. Richard Thornton, corrected from observations made during the second visit.
