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Wilson,C.T. U. Felkin,R.W.
Uganda and the Egyptian Sudan. 2 pp. in 1 vol. Stuttgart, J.G.Cotta 1883. VII p., 177 p.; 1 leaf, 162 p. With 35 woodcuts in the text. Cloth hardcover with rtit. (Some rubbing). Henze II, 205; Ibrahim-hilmy I, 2309; Hess-C. 468; Dinse 590; Embacher 298; first German edition. - Felkin traveled to Uganda in 1879, "in whose capital Rubaga he arrived in mid-February, coming from Khartoum. On the return march he traveled with the missionary Wilson "through the Bahr-el-Ghazal region to Dara and Darfur, from where they reached the Nile again via el-Obeid, Kordofan. At the request of Emin Pasha, they carried out a careful route survey in this area. Felkin's ... F. Ratzel counted Felkin's treatises among the best material we have on the ethnography of Central Africa." (Henze). - Partly slightly stained and browned.
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