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John CampbellA Journey to Lattakoo in South Africa (1835)Religious Tract Society, London, 1835,
A Journey to Lattakoo in South Africa (1835)
Religious Tract Society, London, 1835, hardcover, brown cloth boards, map, 46 chapters include; departure from Cape Town to Beaufort, enter Bushman country, Griqua Town, Eclipse, formal interview with King and Chiefs, The King desirous to have a musket, conversation with Mahoomoo Peloo and Chiefs, runaway slave, death of a gnu, uproar of natives, visit from Bootchuana Bushmen, journey from Graaf Reynet, 207 pages, 100 x 150mm, condition: good.
The author was a Scottish missionary and traveller. The London Missionary Society sent him to the Cape in 1812 to inspect the mission stations. He set off from Cape Town calling in at Bethelsdorp and Grahamstown, then headed north to Graaff-Reinet and Klaarwater (later Griquatown). He arrived back in Cape Town in October 1813. This book is an account of this trip. On a subsequent trip he instructed the missionary Robert Moffat to start a mission among the Bechuana .
Religious Tract Society
London
1835
1st Edition
good
100 x 150mm
A Journey to Lattakoo in South Africa (1835)
Religious Tract Society, London, 1835, hardcover, brown cloth boards, map, 46 chapters include; departure from Cape Town to Beaufort, enter Bushman country, Griqua Town, Eclipse, formal interview with King and Chiefs, The King desirous to have a musket, conversation with Mahoomoo Peloo and Chiefs, runaway slave, death of a gnu, uproar of natives, visit from Bootchuana Bushmen, journey from Graaf Reynet, 207 pages, 100 x 150mm, condition: good.
The author was a Scottish missionary and traveller. The London Missionary Society sent him to the Cape in 1812 to inspect the mission stations. He set off from Cape Town calling in at Bethelsdorp and Grahamstown, then headed north to Graaff-Reinet and Klaarwater (later Griquatown). He arrived back in Cape Town in October 1813. This book is an account of this trip. On a subsequent trip he instructed the missionary Robert Moffat to start a mission among the Bechuana .
Religious Tract Society
London
1835
1st Edition
good
100 x 150mm
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