A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South AfricaCambridge University Press, 2014 M09 25 - 760 páginas James Backhouse (1794-1869) came from a family of accomplished naturalists and horticulturalists. As a Quaker, he spent several years in Australia engaged in missionary and humanitarian work, after which he returned to England via Mauritius and South Africa. The present work, first published in 1844, is adapted from his journals of that journey, providing a rich and personal account. It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Backhouse's horticultural interests are evident in the detailed botanical observations he made, the value of which led to a genus of shrub being named after him: Backhousia. This work contains illustrations based on original sketches made by Backhouse during the trip, and appendices which include letters and texts relating to the mission, as well as a map of South Africa. |
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Map of Mauritius and Islands under the Mauritian Government _ page | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 19 |
CHAPTER III | 41 |
CHAPTER IV | 59 |
Table Mountain andtheLionHill | 66 |
CHAPTER V | 79 |
Africanlravelling | 88 |
CHAPTER VI | 92 |
FelisnigripestheBlackfootedCat | 339 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 347 |
Philippolis London Missionary Station | 349 |
Native Huts | 355 |
Morija Paris Missionary Station | 364 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 365 |
Remarkable Peak at Thaba Bossiou | 368 |
Basutu Smiths Apparatus | 377 |
Zuurbraak Missionaries wives Vi11age Population Injustice War | 106 |
Zuurbraak London Missionary Station | 107 |
CHAPTER VIII | 124 |
CHAPTER IX | 142 |
CHAPTER X | 154 |
CHAPTER XI | 163 |
CHAPTER XII | 171 |
CHAPTER XIII | 179 |
CHAPTER XIV | 192 |
CHAPTER XV | 209 |
TreesofSouthAfrica | 226 |
CHAPTER XVI | 229 |
CHAPTER XVII | 248 |
CHAPTER XIX | 279 |
CHAPTER XX | 291 |
Trees ofSouthAfrical | 293 |
CHAPTER XXI | 311 |
CHAPTER XXII | 325 |
Country Large Reed Plaatberg Bastaards Wheat Carolus Batje Ho | 383 |
CHAPTER XXV | 407 |
Thaba Unchu Wesleyan Missionary Station | 411 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 430 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 449 |
CHAPTER XXVIII | 472 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 497 |
CHAPTER XXX | 523 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 541 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 559 |
CHAPTER XXXIII | 583 |
CHAPTER XXXIV | 602 |
APPENDIX | i |
The Way of Salvation by Jesus Christ viii | viii |
Extracts of Letters relating to Great Namaqualand | xxiii |
F A Christian Exhortation to the Coloured Inhabitants of South Africa | xxxix |
inObservations submitted in Brotherly Love to the Missionaries and other | xlix |
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