3-043-804 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in Africa: bringing home the eland, 1872. 'Many sketches of South African scenery and travel, by Mr. Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S., formerly a companion of Dr. Livingstone's expeditions up the Zambesi and Shiré rivers, have from time to time appeared in our Engravings. His subsequent journey, with the late Mr. James Chapman, across the whole width of the continent, from Walfisch Bay up the Orange River, and thence by Lake Ngami to the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, is related in a book to which reference has been often made. These southern parts of Africa are indeed very far remote from the scene of Dr. Livingstone's more recent explorations west of Lake Tanganyika; and there are the greatest differences in the climate, the aspect of the country, its plants and animals, and the native races of savage mankind, But at the present moment everything that appertains to the half-known wilderness of Africa, and the experiences of British travellers there, is likely to interest our readers. [Our engraving] represents the incident of a team of oxen dragging to camp the body of an eland, shot for the food of the travelling party'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.