A kafila of slaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Member of the body-guard of the Sheikh of Bornou . . . . . . . . . 73 Reception of the Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Lancer of the army of the Sultan of Begharmi . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Map of Denham and Clapperton's journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Portrait of Clapperton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 "The caravan met a messenger" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 "Travelling at a slow pace" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 View on the banks of the Congo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Ashantee warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Rene Caillie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 "He decamped with all his followers" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Caillie crossing the Tankisso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 View of part of Timbuctoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Map of Rene Caillie's journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 "Laing saw Mount Loma" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Lower Course of the Niger (after Lander) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Mount Kesa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 "They were all but upset" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Square stool belonging to the King of Bornou . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Map of the Lower Course of the Djoliba, Kouara, Quoora, or Niger (after Lander) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 "It was hollowed out of a single tree-trunk" . . . . . . . . . . . 141 View of a Merawe temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 The Second Cataract of the Nile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Temple of Jupiter Ammon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 "Villages picturesquely perched" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Map of the Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Circassians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 "Excelling in lassoing the wild mustangs" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Map of the Sources of the Mississippi, 1834 . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 View of the Pyramid of Xochicalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 PART THE SECOND. New Zealanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Coast of Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Typical Ainos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 "In the twinkling of an eye the canoes were empty" . . . . . . . . 188 Interior of a house at Radak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 View of Otaheite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 One of the guard of the King of the Sandwich Islands . . . . . . . 198 "The village consisted of clean, well-built huts" . . . . . . . . . 204