A PRIVATE JOURNAL KEPT DURING THE NIGER EXPEDITION; from the Commencement in May, 1841, until the recall of the Expedition in June, 1842.

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 139, original purple blind stamped cloth, some spotting to covers. Scarce. In 1841 an expedition consisting of three steamships of the British navy, under the command of Captain H D Trotter, embarked for the Niger; the aims were the pursuit of science and the abolition of slavery. But at Egga the expedition was forced to turn back due to the appalling incidence of disease and death. There were very few expeditions of any kind up the Niger at this date; the climate was too hostile. Simpson's account of the trials besetting the expedition is affecting, there were fifty deaths. N° de ref. del artículo 10578

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