With a Description of Their Habits, Customs, & Religious Beliefs.First edition. Coloured folding map & 40 half-tone illustrations. 8vo. Original red cloth with gilt cover vignette. Very good. 318pp. 16pp. ads. London, Seeley, Service & Co, 1914.
Weeks was one of the first missionaries in the Congo - arriving only two years after H.M. Stanley in 1881. A prolific author, he is probably best known for the active role he played in the denunciation of King Leopold’s regime. This work is a pioneering example of ethnography in the Congo. Not for the faint-hearted, two of the illustrations depict different methods of beheading. Hosken, pp 214-5.
