[COMPLETE] National Geographic Magazine Vol. 1 No. 2 - gu

[Guero]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2.

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National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:
Africa, it's Past and Future
Reports on:
Geography of the Land
Geography of the Sea
Geography of the Air
Geography of Life
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   • Date of first publication: 1889
   
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Any questions?
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[kayray]

May I have section 8: Report - Geography of Life by C. Hart Merriam (1845-1942)?

Thanks!

[Guero]

Absolutely, Kara! Enjoy.

[kayray]

Done :) I love bite-size chapters!

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/gu/ngm01_2_8.mp3 - 6:36

[Guero]

Woo hoo! Thanks, Kara. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

With one section already in, I think it's time to move to Readers Wanted...

[rainwatercoyote]

Could I possibly sign up to DPL this?

(And since I'm already here, section 8 is PL OK!)

[Guero]

Could I possibly sign up to DPL this?

(And since I'm already here, section 8 is PL OK!)

Absolutely, Adam. I'll add you to the Magic Window in a few moments. Have you ever used the MW? If not, I'll send you a PM with your user name/password and instructions.

If you decide you want to read any of the sections, I'll be glad to PL them for you.

Thanks!

[MJFranck]

I would like to take on the past and future, the first three chapters.

I had a hard time finding this text, by the way. You should let your readers know that No. 2 follows No.1 in the same volume, Volume 1. That sounds weird written down, but you'll find a better way of saying it. I was looking for a separate publication and kept coming back to Vol 1, No. 1, which really IS the right place; you just have to search within it to find where No. 2 begins.

MJ Franck

[Guero]

I would like to take on the past and future, the first three chapters.

I had a hard time finding this text, by the way. You should let your readers know that No. 2 follows No.1 in the same volume, Volume 1. That sounds weird written down, but you'll find a better way of saying it. I was looking for a separate publication and kept coming back to Vol 1, No. 1, which really IS the right place; you just have to search within it to find where No. 2 begins.

MJ Franck

MJ - Welcome to the project. Those chapters are yours!

Also, thanks for the feedback on the text locations. In the MW I did point out which pages each section starts and ends on. Did you not see those notations? Or are you saying that wasn't clear enough? I'll gladly do what I can to make it more clear.

Thanks.

[MJFranck]

Thanks, John. Just for your information, the page numbers do not appear at all on the kindle version, which is what I was looking at. Later, I tried downloading the PDF file. It took a very long time to get to page 99, and the position shown was identified as 147 of 432 (?). Anyway, I guess it matters what type of file you are accessing as to whether or not the page numbers are an effective way to find the location.

At any rate, I've got it now. I'll get to work.

MJ

[MJFranck]

I have 2 questions about the text. I'm sorry, but I don't have a page number to reference in the Kindle edition.

In Section 2, the passage I'm referring to is the section on Slave-Trade, the paragraph beginning, "It is impossible to ascertain the number of slaves imported into America." The text I'm looking at has transmission errors and I don't know what the numbers are supposed to be in the following:

"for /1/ per cent, were lost on the passage, one-third more in the "process of seasoning;" so that, out of ]00 shipped from Africa, not more than 50 lived to be effective laborers."

I interpreted this to say "for 15 per cent were lost on the passage, one-third more in the process of seasoning so that, out of 100 shipped from Africa, not more than 50 lived to be effective laborers." Please advise if I need to change this.

In Section 3, under the topic Stanley Expedition, the paragraph beginning, "The great difficulty in these expeditions is to obtain food." Nearly at the end of this paragraph, I see the following:

"Often the natives not only refuse food to the famished travelers, but oppose them with such arms as they have; and theurit is necessary, in self-defence, to fire upon them."

I interpreted this to say "and therefore it is necessary, in self-defense, to fire upon them." Is this correct?

MJ Franck

[MJFranck]

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/gu/ngm01_2_1.mp3

Here is the first part of Africa, its Past and Future. Time 21:20

MJ Franck

[Rapunzelina]

MJ Franck, I located the passages you are referring to in the pdf format. The first one is: "but these figures do not represent the number shipped from Africa, for 12 1/2 per cent, were lost on the passage, one-third more in the "process of seasoning;" so that, out of 100 shipped from Africa, not more than 50 lived to be effective laborers."
The other one is: "Often the natives not only refuse food to the famished travelers, but oppose them with such arms as they have; and then it is necessary, in self-defence, to fire upon them."
Cheers!

[MJFranck]

Part 2 of Africa, its Past and Future. Time is 33:48.
Thanks for the text help.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/gu/ngm01_2_2.mp3

MJ Franck

[Guero]

Thanks, MJ and Rapunzelina. I appreciate you working this out in my (unplanned!) absence.