BARNARD, Frederick Lamport.

A three years' cruize in the Mozambique Channel, for the suppression of the slave trade.

London, Richard Bentley, 1848. 8vo (195 x 120 mm), pp. xiii, 319, [1]; a few marginal annotations in pencil; a good copy in contemporary calf, rebacked; the Signet Library copy, with its gilt arms on covers, subsequently in the collection of I. & F. W. Hosken, with their bookplate. First edition. ‘The expedition left Mauritius on the 9th of December 1842, and was actively engaged in carrying out the objects of the cruise during nearly the whole of three years, in the course of which many visits were paid to the ports and islands of the eastern and southern coasts of South Africa. During part of the year 1846, the ship (H.M.S. Thunderbolt) was engaged in doing transport work for the Kaffir War, and there is a narrative of some incidents of this campaign. Early in 1847 the Thunderbolt was ordered to Algoa Bay to embark the 90th regiment, but unfortunately it struck a sunken rock near Cape Recife, in sight of her destination. Strenuous exertions were made to save the vessel, but in spite of the aid of two ships, the Eurydice and the President, she became a total wreck’ (Mendelssohn). ‘The possibility of effectually suppressing the slave trade is a question which is now engaging the serious attention of the legislature, and has been for some time past the subject of anxious speculation by the public. The author of the following pages has been induced to believe that the revelations contained in them are additions to the knowledge already acquired of this hateful traffic, and accordingly he has published them’ (preface).Hogg 3294; Hosken p. 11; Mendelssohn I p. 82; Theal p. 19.

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