The Africans at Home

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Excerpt from The Africans at Home: Being a Popular Description of Africa and the Africans Condensed From the Accounts of African Travellers From the Time of Mungo Park to the Present DayThe Author does not wish to appear as a traveller, using the pronoun I. His experiences of Africa are not worthy of being mentioned along with those of real discoverers. Yet no one could have written this book, Without having previously visited that country. Everything in Africa is di¿'erent from what is seen in Europe. The colour of the sky, the air, the land, the seasons, the rains, the animals (and we speak feelingly of insects), the length of the grass, the fields, the trees, the colour of the people, their dress or want of dress, their habitations, food, amusements, and occupations, - all is strangely diverse from What Europeans have been accustomed to. A very sensi ble man, who had always lived in an inland county of England until he went to Western Africa, said that when he landed in that country, he became so bewildered that he did not recover the proper use of his senses for a fortnight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.