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Wanderings in Three Continents

Chapter 34: Transcriber’s Note:
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A collection of posthumous travel essays presents condensed accounts of journeys across Arabia, East and Central Africa, the Americas, and the Near East. The author recounts a perilous pilgrimage to sacred Arabian cities, inland missions to Harar and deeper African expeditions including lake regions, an account of the Mormon settlement, a mission to Dahomé, a Congo voyage, explorations of Brazil's interior, and a survey of Palmyra. Narratives combine scene-driven travel reportage, ethnographic observation, logistical detail, and reflective commentary on customs, dangers, and the practicalities of nineteenth-century exploration.

Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words at line endings or page breaks were removed.

Inconsistent hyphenation and misspelled words were not changed.

At the end of the phrase “They took up comfortable positions on the cut-throat em,” the last portion of the word beginning with “em” is not printed in the original; “embankment” is assumed.

The Arabic signature below the frontispiece, الحاج عبداله, is a best guess, based on several interpretations of the original image.