Shaw in Algeria and Tunis—Hornemann in Fezzan—Adamson at
Senegal—Houghton in Senegambia—Mungo Park and his two voyages to
the Djoliba, or Niger—Sego—Timbuctoo—Sparmann and Lavaillant at
the Cape, at Natal, and in the Interior—Lacerda in Mozambique,
and at Cazembé—Bruce in Abyssinia—Sources of the Blue Nile—Tzana
Lake—Browne's journey in Darfur. An Englishman named Thomas
Shaw, a chaplain in Algeria, had profited by his twelve years'
stay in Barbary to gather together a rich collection of natural
curiosities, medals, inscriptions, and various objects of
interest. Although he himself never visited the southern portion
of Algeria, he availed himself of the facts he was able to
obtain from well-informed travellers, who imparted to him a mass
of information concerning the little known and scarcely visited
country. He published a book in two large quarto volumes, which
embraced the whole of ancient Numidia. It was rather the work of
a learned man than the account of a traveller, and it must be
admitted that the lea