Sahara und Sudan: Ergebnisse SechsjäHriger Reisen in Afrika

Abstract

NEARLY a decade has elapsed since Dr. Nachtigal's return to Europe after his travels in East Sahara and Central Sudan during the years 1869–74. Most of the geographical and ethnological results of his researches in that region have already appeared at various times in the memoirs of the Gesellschaft für Erdkunde and of other learned societies. But the issue of the monumental work embodying all the details in a permanent form is proceeding at a very slow rate. The first part, covering the years 1869–70, did not appear till 1879, and an interval of two years elapsed before the publication of this second instalment, which, although forming a bulky volume of 790 pages, gets no further than the first days of September, 1872. In the preface the delay is attributed mainly to the time occupied in the tedious process of sifting the ethnological and especially the linguistic materials brought home by the traveller. The help afforded by Rudolf Prietze in arranging these materials is handsomely acknowledged in the preface, where occasion is also taken to express regret for omitting to give the source of the familiar mailclad, mounted Bornu warrior borrowed in Part 1. from Denham and Clapperton's work, attention to which oversight had been called in our review of that volume (see NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 198).

Sahara und Sudan: Ergebnisse Sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika.

Von Dr. Gustav Nachtigal. Part II. (Berlin: 1881.)