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by Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham, Walter Oudney
The appendix, 131 p. at end, contains: no. I-XVI. Translations from the Arabic, of various letters and documents, brought from Bornou and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton. By A. Salame.--no. XVII-XX. Bornu, Bengharmi, Mandara, and Timbuctoo vocabularies.--XXI. Zoology. [By John George Children and Nicholas Aylward Vigors.]--XXII. Botanical appendix. By Robert Brown.--XXIII. Letter to Major Denham, on the rock specimens ... by Charles Konig.--XXV. Thermometrical journal kept at Kouka in Bornou.
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en
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Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
London: John Murray, 1826.
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Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive and Yale Univ. Library)
Release date
2023-09-29
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Public domain in the USA.

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