Before he turned to statistics and heredity, the young Francis Galton led a party of nearly forty men inland from the coast of south-west Africa, through the country of the pastoral Herero (Damara) and Nama peoples, to the farming Ovambo in the north. He records routes, hunting, missionaries and daily camp life, with racial judgements typical of a Victorian explorer.
A key early European account of what is now Namibia, by a scientist later notorious as the founder of eugenics. Download the free EPUB.