Fighting the Slave Hunters in Central Africa: A Record of Twenty-Six Years of Travel and Adventure Round the Great LakesThis volume deals mainly with Swann's life on and around Lake Tanganyika, a life that brought him knowledge of many African peoples living on the lake's shores. First published in 1910. |
Contents
lxvii | |
Chapter I | 19 |
Chapter II | 35 |
Chapter III | 48 |
Chapter IV | 68 |
Chapter V | 81 |
Chapter VI | 98 |
Chapter VII | 115 |
Chapter XII | 203 |
Chapter XIII | 221 |
Chapter XIV | 239 |
Chapter XV | 255 |
Chapter XVI | 275 |
Chapter XVII | 291 |
Chapter XVIII | 309 |
Chapter XIX | 323 |
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