Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
Mary Henrietta Kingsley · English
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Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
Mary Henrietta Kingsley · English
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PREFACE TO THE READER. - What this book wants is not a simple Preface but an apology, and a very brilliant and convincing one at that. Recognising this fully, and feeling quite incompetent to write such a masterpiece, I have asked several literary friends to write one for me, but they have kindly but firmly declined, stating that it is impossible satisfactorily to apologise for my liberties with Lindley Murray and the Queen’s English. I am therefore left to make a feeble apology for t
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