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ALTHOUGH claiming to be little more than the record of a passing visit paid to the Lower Congo Basin towards the end of the year 1882, this is really a work of permanent interest to the naturalist and ethnologist. The author, a young and ardent student of biology in its widest sense, here conveys his impressions of West African life and scenery in a series of graphic pictures, which owe much of their freshness and vigour to the circumstance that they are always drawn at first hand from nature, and are often an exact reproduction of jottings made with pen and brush in the midst of the scenes described. His skill as a draughtsman he turns to good account by illustrating the text with numerous drawings of plants, animals, and human types, many of which are absolute fac-similes executed by the Typographic Etching Company.
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"The River Congo, from its Mouth to Bólóbó," by H. H. Johnston F.Z.S. (Sampson Low, 1884.)
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KEANE, A. The Congo 1 . Nature 29, 579–581 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029579a0
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