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JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.

The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.

The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.

A record of scientific exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a general description of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District.

Stock Code 107542

London, Kegan Paul, 1886

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Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission also had covert political objectives and Johnston was accredited by the Foreign Office to (Sir) John Kirk, the British agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar. On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection. These treaties formed the basis of the subsequent foundation of the British East Africa Protectorate (1895), later Kenya and Uganda.

First edition, 8vo, xv, 572 pp., 6 maps (2 folding), portrait frontispiece, and 78 other illustrations (14 full-page), contemporary full calf gilt, red morocco label, prize binding for Liverpool Institute Schools, a very good copy.

Neate J29.

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