Tui translator's preface.

of which he diligently profited, to study and note down the

characteristics and social habits of many of the races of men

that make up the heterogeneous population of the Ottoman Empire."

Under the sanction of such high authority, the translator

ventured to think that an English version of Mr. Werne's work would not prove unacceptable to the readers of the " Traveller's Library," and he now offers these African Wanderings to the public.