The Victoria Nyanza: The Land, the Races and Their Customs, with Specimens of Some of the Dialects (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Paul Kollmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332072313 ISBN 13: 9781332072316

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Victoria Nyanza: The Land, the Races and Their Customs, With Specimens of Some of the Dialects

IN presenting to the reader a description of the races inhabiting the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, the most extensive fresh-water basin of Central Africa, exhibiting their customs and usages, their mode of life and their ethnographic relations, I have a twofold object in view to record in detail the results of my observations and the contents of my collections, and to awaken public interest in the most beautiful region of Germany's East African colony, destined at no distant time to play an important part in colonial enterprise. On my numerous excursions and expeditions west, south, and east of the lake, I enjoyed most favourable opportunities of making extensive and valuable collections of all kinds, of gather ing interesting information about the peculiarities of the several races, and of learning a great deal from my own personal observation.

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Excerpt from The Victoria Nyanza: The Land, the Races and Their Customs, With Specimens of Some of the Dialects I am aware that on some points my records are at variance with those of other travellers, but must leave it to experts to investigate this divergence, and account for it. I, for my part, am content merely to give an accurate and faithful description of my own observations, and of the information given me by the natives. I shall feel myself abundantly rewarded if, by contributing my mite, I have enriched science with any new and interesting facts. In conclusion, I express my thanks to Dr. Weule and Mr. Ankermann for the great trouble they have taken in ordering, sifting, and arranging my collection in the Berlin Museum, and to the latter gentleman especially for the excellent and painstaking drawings he has made, which were indispensably necessary for the publication of this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332072313
• ISBN 13: 9781332072316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268