Excerpt from Wanderings in West Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: From Liverpool to Fernando Po
A no less authority than Baron von Humboldt has declared, in his "Personal Narrative," that, "from every traveller beginning the account of his adventures by a description of Madeira and Tenerife, there remains now scarce anything untold respecting their topography." And after this dictum the great philosopher proceeds to evidence in propria persona, the fact that no account can be so correct but that it may be made exacter still.
I was induced to put my notes into the form of pages by the consideration that however well trodden be the path of which they treat, there is no single volume that can be taken with him by the outward-bound. Each separate station of the "African Steam Ship Company" has a small literature of its own: the line however lacks the idea of a handbook. And as for correctness the "West African Pilot" himself requires revision.
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