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Title: Travels in Africa, Revised by the Editors
Description: New York, Carlton & Lanahan, [circa, 1872. Hardcover. Covers rubbed, abraded and faintly discolored; wormhole at bottom of front hinge; corners bumped; endpapers, and first and last pages stained; some light foxing, but pages otherwise very good condition. OCLC locates only the Library of Congress copy. ]. 173p. Illus. Apparently an amalgamation of three previously published (but unidentified) traveller's accounts, to which a narrator has been added. The interest lies in the purpose, disclosed in the preface: to discourage uppity-ness by teaching "the lesson it is intended to give - that we should rest contented in that station in which almighty Wisdom has placed us. .

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