Fuller (C.): LOUIS TRIGARDT'S TREK ACROSS THE DRAKENSBERG 1837-1838, edited by Leo Fouche

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Fuller (C.) : LOUIS TRIGARDT'S TREK ACROSS THE DRAKENSBERG 1837-1838, edited by Leo Fouche

173 pages, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), folding colour frontispiece, 5 folding maps, 8 plates, grey cloth, edges foxed. Van Riebeeck Society, First series, No.13

The author was entomologist to the Union government until 1928. While enquiring into the history of the tsetse fly in the Eastern Transvaal he consulted Preller's edition of Louis Trigardt's diary. Trigardt had encountered a number of fly belts and this led Fuller to attempt to plot the route of the trek in detail. Upon his death in 1928 he had almost completed this task and been remarkably successful, actual remains of the road made by Trigardt having been found. He also made use of African oral traditions in establishing the correct route.

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