Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816

James Hingston Tuckey; Christen Smith

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139245746

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James Hingston Tuckey, Christen Smith

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2013
Print publication year:: 2012
First published in:: 1818
Online ISBN:: 9781139245746
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139245746

Subjects:: Area Studies, African Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, History, African History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies

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In 1816, an expedition to Africa, commanded by Captain James Tuckey (1776–1816), set out on HMS Congo, accompanied by the storeship Dorothy. The aim was to discover more about African geography - of which relatively little was then known - and in particular the connection between the River Congo, also known as the Zaire, and the Niger Basin. The mission failed when eighteen crew members, including Tuckey, died from virulent fevers and attacks by hostile natives. However, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty gave permission for publication of Tuckey's notes, and those of his Norwegian botanist Christen Smith (1785–1816), who also died during the voyage. First published in 1818, the work comprises their narratives of the doomed expedition. At the time it aroused Western interest in Africa, encouraging further research, and it remains of interest to geographers, botanists and scholars of African studies today.

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES
pp xi-xii

INTRODUCTION
pp xiii-xciv

NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE RIVER ZAIRE
pp 1-2

CHAPTER I - Passage to, and Notices on, the Island of Saint Jago
pp 3-36

CHAPTER II - Passage from Porto Praya to the Mouth of the Zaire
pp 37-66

CHAPTER III - Passage up the River to the Place where the Ship was moored, and from whence the Party proceeded in the Double-boats
pp 67-126

CHAPTER IV - Progress up the River as far as Yellalla, or the Cataract
pp 127-166

CHAPTER V - Progress from the Cataract, or Cooloo, by Land chiefly, to Inga
pp 167-188

CHAPTER VI - Excursion from Inga, and from thence to the Termination of the Journey
pp 189-226

PROFESSOR SMITH'S JOURNAL
pp 227-228

SECTION I - Notices from England to our departure from St. Jago
pp 229-252

SECTION II - From St. Jago to the Mouth of the River Zaire
pp 253-272

SECTION III - Progress up the River as far as Cooloo, opposite the Cataract
pp 273-320

SECTION IV - From Cooloo to the Extremity of the Journey
pp 321-336

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
pp 337-390

APPENDIX

No. I - A Vocabulary of the Malemba and Embomma Languages
pp 391-399

No. II - Observations on the Genus Ocythoë of Rafinesque, with a Description of a New Species. By William Elford Leach, M. D. F. R. S.
pp 400-401

No. III - The distinguishing Characters between the Ova of the Sepia, and those of the Vermes Testacea, that live in Water explained. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S.
pp 402-406

No. IV - A General Notice of the Animals taken by Mr. John Cranch, during the Expedition
pp 407-419

No. V - Observations, Systematical and Geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's Collection of Plants from the Vicinity of the River Congo, by Robert Brown, F. R. S.
pp 420-485

No. VI - Geological Remarks on the Specimens of Rocks presented to the British Museum. By Charles Konig, Esq. F. R. S.
pp 486-488

No. VII - Hydrographical Remarks from the Island of St. Thomas to the Mouth of the Zaire
pp 489-498

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