REPRINT. Special Description Note- This is not a print on demand edition. Care has been taken to enhance and improve the original text whenever possible. Martino Publishing follows the standards of traditional printing and quality is a primary concern. We distinguish ourselves from Print on Demand by our quality controls, paper quality and binding quality. Octavo. Hardcover xvi, 471, [1] p. , [6] leaves of plates, 5 folding. (some col. ), ports. Dr. Smith was moved to undertake his journey in Somaliland, he tells us in his first chapter, because he had an Anglo-Saxon love of sport and adventure, and seven years' medical training had taught him never to lose a chance of doing scientific work. Dr. Smith started from Berbera in July, I894, and marched in a southwesterly direction to a little beyond Ginea, where he was stopped by the Abyssinians. He turned to the east and southeast, then westward to Lake Rudolf, and thence south to Lamu, the end of his fifteen months' wanderings. His most interesting find was the tribe of pygmies, the Dume, in the region north of Lake Stefanie. The tribe numbers about a thousand, who raise sheep and goats and cultivate a little land. They hunt with poisoned arrows, though the area of their hunting ground has been diminished by the encroachments of their neighbors. Dr. Smith took no measurement of the Dume, for fear of alarming the little people, and this may be regarded as a lost opportunity. The maps, which give altitudes in feet and astronomical determinations of latitude and longitude from the author's observations, deserve special mention, and the illustrations are nearly all good.