THE TALES OF PETER PARLEY ABOUT AFRICA. WITH ENGRAVINGS. REVISED EDITION. PHILADELPHIA. DE SILVER, THOMAS, AND CO. 1836. FEB 27 918 LIBRARY I me money DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the seventh day of October, A. D. 1830, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "The Tales of Peter Parley about Africa. With Engravings." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY THE PREFACE. The following is the Preface to the revised edition of Parley's America,' and will explain the nature and design of the present work. It is now several years since this little work was given to the public. It was my first adventure in authorship, and after passing through several editions, has returned to receive my final revision. I have bestowed upon it such care as an old worn out man may give; and as I must soon turn my back upon the world, I take my leave of my little first-born, forever. The public-I mean the world of children-have bestowed upon it their favor, and I ask no more. If my health is spared long enough, I intend to revise the books I have written, and then I shall feel that the charter of my humble, but I hope not useless existence, is at an end. It is proper to say, that this book is the commencement of a series, designed to give the first ideas of Geography and History. The second volume is about Europe; the third about Africa; the fourth about Asia. To these are added three others, Tales of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean; Tales of the Sea; and Tales of the Earth, the Sun, Moon and Stars. PETER PARLEY'S TALES ABOUT AFRICA. CHAPTER I. PARLEY GOES TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, AND SEES AN ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA. I AM now going to tell you of what happened near thirty years ago. After my return to America, as I have told you in my tales about Europe, I set out in a ship for the Mediterra nean sea. This sea lies far to the east. To go to it, we must cross the Atlantic ocean. It lies between Africa and Europe. Africa is south of it, and Europe north of it. Which way from you is the Mediterranean sea? Between what two countries does it lie? Which way is Africa from the Mediterranean? Which way is Europe from the Mediterranean? |