JOHNSTON, Henry Hamilton (Harry).

The Kilima-njaro expedition. A record of scientific exploration in eastern equatorial Africa. And a general description of the natural history, languages and commerce of the Kilima-njaro district.

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. 8vo (220 x 140 mm), pp. xv, 572, 36 (advertisements), with a portrait-frontispiece, 14 plates and four maps (two folding); illustrations in the text; plates slightly foxed; original red pictorial cloth; spine chipped at head and sunned, front inner hinge slightly cracked; the Hosken copy, with bookplate. First edition. ‘Johnston was invited, in 1884, on behalf of the Royal Society, to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission had also covert political objects; and Johnston was accredited by the Foreign Office to (Sir) John Kirk, the British agent and consul-general at Zanzibar. On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection. These treaties formed the basis of the subsequent foundation of the British East Africa Protectorate (1895), now represented by Kenya Colony and Uganda’ (DNB). Johnston ‘produced an excellent map of the Kilimanjaro region and pushed exploration higher than before, reaching c. 16,300 ft’ (Neate).Hosken p. 110; Neate J29; Perret 2392.

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