Excerpt from The Civilization of South Eastern Africa: Including Remarks on the Approach to Nyassa by the Zambezi; With Map The first part of the matter included in this reprint was prepared at the' instance of influential members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, with a view to the discussion of the subject, in September of last year. It has been mostly rewritten, with information to the present date, but with the omission of the discussion, which turned on points now generally conceded. A second pamphlet was prepared in fulfilment of an undertaking to have Von der Decken's journal translated, with the view of making a road along his line of route, which Sir Bartle Frere recommended as an important work to the influential meeting which heard his interesting address in the Hall of the Chamber of Commerce of Glasgow in November. An attempt was made in it to set before the English reader, by using cross lights from German and English sources, an accurate view of what such an enterprise as a road from the coast to the northern end of N yassa involves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.