Research Catalog

Title

A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa / by Paul B. Du Chaillu ; with map and illustrations.

Author

Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903

Publication

• New York : D. Appleton and Co., Broadway, 1867.
• ©1867.

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Additional Authors

• Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher

Description

xxiv, 501, [1] pages, [19] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map, portraits; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Natural history > Africa, West
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Ethnology > Africa, West
• Africa, West > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Title vignette.
• The frontispiece is included in pagination.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by D. Appleton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink "To G. M. Belden, with the kindest regards of her [sic?] friend the Author. P.B. Du Chaillu. April 1867." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The voyage -- ch. 2. The Fernand Vaz -- ch. 3. Excursions in search of the gorilla and the ipi -- ch. 4. Start for the interior -- ch. 5. Visit to the Samba Nagoshi Falls -- ch. 6. Ashira-land -- ch. 7. The plague in Ashira-land -- ch. 8. From Olenda to Máyolo -- ch. 9. Máyolo -- ch. 10. The Otando and Apono region -- ch. 11. Ants -- ch. 12. Máyolo to Apolo-land -- ch. 13. The march through Apono-land -- ch. 14. Journey through Ishogo-land -- ch. 15. From Ishogo to Ashango-land -- ch. 16. Ashango-land -- ch. 17. Fatal disasters at Mouaou Kombo -- ch. 18. Retreat from Ashango-land -- ch. 19. Journey to the coast -- ch. 20. Physical geography and climate -- ch. 21. Ethnology -- appendix 1. Description of three skulls of western equatorial Africans: Fan, Ashira, and Fernand Vaz, with some admeasurements of the rest of the collection of skulls, transmitted to the British Museum from the Fernand Vaz, by P. B. Du Chaillu / by Professor Owen -- appendix 2. Instruments used in the expedition to Ashango-land ; Observations for latitute ; Observations for lunar distances ; Heights of stations ; Synopsis of results -- appendix 3. Comparative table of words in several languages of western equatorial Africa.

Call Number

Sc 916.72-D (Du Chaillu, P. Journey to Ashango-land)

LCCN

05009143

OCLC

• 2309883
• NYPGR2309883-B

Author

Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903, author.

Title

A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa / by Paul B. Du Chaillu ; with map and illustrations.

Publisher

New York : D. Appleton and Co., Broadway, 1867.

Copyright Date

©1867.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.72-D (accession no. B526907) inscribed: in ink "To G. M. Belden, with the kindest regards of her [sic?] friend the Author. P.B. Du Chaillu. April 1867." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Owen, Richard, 1804-1892. Description of three skulls of western equatorial Africans: Fan, Ashira, and Fernand Vaz, with some admeasurements of the rest of the collection of skulls, transmitted to the British Museum from the Fernand Vaz, by P. B. Du Chaillu.

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903, inscriber.

Belden, George Mortimer, active 1861-1867, former owner.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.72-D (Du Chaillu, P. Journey to Ashango-land)

BMR (Du Chaillu, P. B. Journey to Ashango-land)

Stuart 6996