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2 Volumes. 8vo. xvi, 360, 6(ads); vii, [1], 346 + 20(ads). 2 folding partly coloured maps, 21 plates (incl. 2 frontis.), & 24 text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spines faded, extremities bit frayed, inner hinges strengthened, light foxing to outer leaves in Vol. I). First Edition. The journals contain a detailed description of Livingstone s last expedition which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. "The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Baker and Burton, but the idea grew on upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the fountains of Herodotus." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) Hosken p. 126. Mendelssohn III 135.

Published posthumously, these journals cover Livingstone's final years of exploration and his quest to find the source of the Nile.