HOUGHTON, Daniel; MUNGO PARK. - Reize en ontdekkingen in de binnen-landen van Africa, gedaan door den majoor Houghton, en Mungo Park, beiden zendelingen der Africasche Maatschappij .. verrijkt met eenige aardrijkskundige ophelderingen van den majoor J. Rennel. Gevolgd naar het Engelsch.

Haarlem, François Bohn, 1800.Original boards (sl. rubbed). With 3 folding engraved maps. X,242 pp.First Dutch edition; first published in English in the Proceedings of the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa. London 1798. - Daniel Houghton (1740-1791) was employed in his retirement by the African Association to explore inland through West Africa with the object of reaching Timbuktu. He had reached the village of Simbing, about 150 miles north of Bamako, halfway to his goal. Nothing more was known of Houghton's fate until five years later when Mungo Park reached Simbing and was shown the site of Houghton' robbery and murder at that village (Howgego p.519). This book contains the travel-accounts in Africa of Daniel Hougton (1790-91) and of Mungo Park (1795-97, his first expedition); with geographical explanation by James Rennell. - Rare.Gay 2788 (English ed.); Cox I, p.388; Not in Tiele.

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