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Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country (First Edition) by Captain Allen F. Gardiner
London: William Crofts, 1836
8vo, iv + 412pp. Rebound in quarter-leather hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to the spine. Speckled edges. With full-colour frontispiece, 3 black and white plates at the front of book, 2 fold-out maps of the Natal area at front and rear of book, and 22 plates throughout, one of which is full-colour.
Allen Francis Gardiner (1794–1851) was a British Royal Navy officer and missionary. Long interested in the missionary work being done in non-Christian populations, after the death of one of his daughters, he decided to enter that field. With this view Gardiner went to Africa in 1834. Exploring the Zulu country, he started the first missionary station at Port Natal in present-day South Africa. From 1834 to 1838, he worked to establish Christian churches in Zululand, but political events and native wars combined to prevent any permanent success. He founded a mission at Hambanathi near the Tongaat river.
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