TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: VOLUME II. By Adulphe Delegorgue.

(1847) 1997 paperback edition. 8vo (150 x 233mm). Ppxxxiv,401. B/w illustrations, maps (including one fold-out), bibliography. Laminated card covers. Erratum slip laid in.

"In this second volume of his Travels Delegorgue interrupts the account of his hunting and collecting adventures in Zululand to give a vivid first-hand description of the conflict between the Boers and the British at Port Natal in 1842. After this he travels northwards to the Limpopo. He writes spiritedly of birds and big game, of peoples and customs new and strange to him, of his own reactions to all he saw and experienced." As with the first volume, there are introductory essays and richly annotated indexes which contextualise and enrich Delegorgue's account. Appendices include: a vocabulary of the Zulu language; notes on lists of species; entomology; catalogue of the lepidoptera; catalogue of coleoptera; diptera; ornithology.