Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years'' Residence in the Interior of Africa (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years'' Residence in the Interior of Africa<br><br>Greater smoothness of diction and a saving of time might have been secured by the employment of a person accustomed to compilation; but my journals having been kept for my own private purposes no one else could have made use of them or have entered with intelligence into the circumstances in which I was placed in Africa far from any European companion. Those who have never carried a book through the press can form no idea of the amount of toil it involves. The process has increased my respect for authors and authoresses a thousand-fold.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.