Author: Wilmot, Robert. (Phyllis Lewsen, Ed).
Title: A Cape Traveller's Diary, 1856. With His Own Illustrations and Sketches.
Description: AD Donker for Friends of the Library. Publication Series No.2. University of The Witwatersrand. Johannesburg 1984. Pale yellow cloth boards. 187pp illustrated 33 b/w drawings. small 4to. 0.6kg. A VG+ copy in lesser dustwrapper (worn especially to spine ends, one repaired closed tear but no major loss or tears). Warmly inscribed by Phyllis Lewen to title page. Roger Wilmot arrived at the Cape in 1855. This is the second of two diaries, the earlier apparently lost. This second diary records his visit to the Eastern Frontier between the end of the Eighth Frontier (Kaffir) War in 1853 and the tragedy of the Xhosa cattle-killing. Illustrated with Wilmot's own drawings and poems, some done on-board ship. Wilmot was a keen naturalist, botanist, and observer of whatever he saw. There are also entries concerning Ascension Island that he visited after leaving South Africa.

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