Dr. Livingstone's 17 years' explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa / ed. by John Hartley Coombs.

  • Coombs, John Hartley.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Dr. Livingstone's 17 years' explorations and adventures in the wilds of Africa / ed. by John Hartley Coombs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    11 PREFACE. 5 The individual whose name is afl&xed to this volume, deems it due to himself to state that he will derive no pecuniary advantage whatever from the publication. He does not feel under any obligation to declare what motives influenced him to undertake the task of collecting all the facts connected with Dr. Livingstone's travels which could possibly be obtained from authentic sources. But he would call attention to the circumstance, that the British public deeply regret the Doctor's resolution not to publish a narra- tive of his own travels ; and the editor of this volume con- sidered that such an account as he could give would serve in some measure to abate that general feeling of disappoint- ment which the Doctor's refusal to be his own chronicler has occasioned. Hoping that this explanation will be satisfactory to all who require any explanation in the premises, the editor concludes these prefatory observations by assuming the re- sponsibility for all errors and inaccuracies which may appear in this book, and exculpating the reverend traveler himself from any blame on that account. London, Feb. ^th, 1857.