Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party is credited to Martin Robison Delany, published in 1861. The contents list sections called Political Movements, Succeeding Conventions, History of the Project and Arrival and Reception in Liberia. A writer says that in the winter of 1831-32, being then but a youth, he formed the design of going to Africa, the land of his ancestry, and that in 1850 he had fully matured a plan for an adventure.

The contents also name sections called Missionary Influence, What Africa Now Requires, To Direct Legitimate Commerce and Cotton Staple. The text gives a recipe for dysentery that lists pulverized rhubarb and pulverized gum catechu, simple syrup, spirits of turpentine, aromatic spirits of ammonia and laudanum. The text says that during the hot stage, the person must be kept as cool as possible. A hot cup of tea, of any kind, is better than nothing, the text says, when neither cinnamon nor ginger is convenient.