Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.
Texts Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs.
Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape "Donate to the archive" User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Internet Arcade Console Living Room.
Open Library American Libraries. Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Tenth Thousand, with Hap and Illustration. In fact I had visited a coinitrv pre- viously unexplored by Europeans β the wooded region bordering the Equator, in the interior of Western Africa β and thus it was my aood fortune to observe the habits of several remarkable species of animals found nowhere else.
Hence my narrative describing unknown animals was condemned. The novelty of the snltjcct was too striking for some of ray critics; and not only were the accounts I gave of the animak and native tribes stigmatized as false, but my journey into the interior ittself was pronounced a fiction. It is necessary, however, to inform my English readers Miat most of the principal statements in my former book which were sneered at by my critics, have been already ait4 ly confirmed by other travellers in the siime part of Africa, or by evidence which has reached England.
