
Rhyanon Demery
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'ABOUNDS WITH ELEPHANTS' – an early sketch map of the Namibian coast. The principal author, John Melville, was a member of the London Missionary Society, and had accompanied Livingstone's father-in-law Robert Moffat on his travels in Namaqualand. Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen, who provided details of the coast, commanded HMS Leven on her epic survey of some 30,000 nautical miles of African coast between 1823 and 1826. The inscription below, which is in a different hand from that of the main map (and is evidently autograph) is by Frederick Herzog FRGS, who served as Assistant Surveyor-General at the Cape of Good Hope from 1828 to 1846.