Rene, C.2026-10-072026-10-071830http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/5292I offer, at length, to the public the narrative of my travels in the interior of Africa, which should have appeared long since: several causes have, however, concurred during the fifteen months that have elapsed since my return to my native soil, to retard its publication till the present time. I have brought home, from the regions I have traversed, only fugitive and very laconic notes, written in haste and trepidation: they would have been inexorable evidence against me, had I surprised, tracing unknown characters, and unveiling as it were to the Whites the mysteries of these countries.en