Excerpt from Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa From the public I crave indulgence for all shortcomings, with the assurance that under the crushing weight of a supreme sorrow which has overtaken me whilst Sultan to Sultan has been in press, it has been with an aching heart I have com pleted the work, endeavoring with fortitude to do my best to make my readers better acquainted with the possibilities of the natural primitives whom I am proud to call my friends and be called friend ...
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Excerpt from Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa From the public I crave indulgence for all shortcomings, with the assurance that under the crushing weight of a supreme sorrow which has overtaken me whilst Sultan to Sultan has been in press, it has been with an aching heart I have com pleted the work, endeavoring with fortitude to do my best to make my readers better acquainted with the possibilities of the natural primitives whom I am proud to call my friends and be called friend by, and to demonstrate that if a woman could journey a thousand and more miles in East Africa, among some ho'stile tribes, unattended by other than Zanzibaris mer cenaries, without bloodshed, the extreme measures employed by some would-be colonizers is unnecessary, atrocious, and with out the pale of humanity. To the indefatigable efforts of my publishers, especiallyto Mr. H. H. Boyce, who, with sympa thy and consideration, has personally spared me the countless detail of the work; to the artists who have entered into the spirit of the illustrations, and actually reproduced the photo graphs and the curios, waiving artistic desire to make alter ations; to the printers, and the Victorians of Manchester, Englandhfor the sketch map of my route; and finally to friends who have seen me bravely through, I owe un. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Fair. 435 p: ill., facsims., map, ports; 24 cm Hardcover. Red cloth boards. Minor shelf wear. Scuffing to head / tail. Bookplate inside front board. Library markings. Facsimile of authors inscription at front of volume. Clean, unmarked pages. Frontispiece illustration of author. Accompanied by a retinue of African porters, American born, 41 year old French-Sheldon exhibits great tenacity in her journey across East Africa from the Court of the Sultan of Zanzibar to Mount Kilimanjaro. She relates her contacts with various tribes en route.
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