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Traveling to the Gold Coast
In this joint book my energetic and hard-working friend and fellow-traveller has described the five working mines which I was unable to visit. He has also made an excellent route-survey of the country, corrected by many and careful astronomical observations. It is curious to compare his work with the sketches of previous observers, Jeekel, Wyatt, Bonnat, and Dahse. To my companion’s industry also are mainly due our collections of natural history. We are answerable only for our own, not for each other’s statements. As regards my part, I have described the Gold-land as minutely as possible, despite the many and obvious disadvantages of the ’photographic style.’ Indeed, we travellers often find ourselves in a serious dilemma. If we do not draw our landscapes somewhat in pre-Raphaelite fashion, they do not impress the reader; if we do, critics tell us that they are wearisome longueurs, and that the half would be...
Posted on May 30, 2007 12:32 PM
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