GREAT EXPLORERS
Old-time travellers—Herodotos—Strabo—Pliny—Ptolemy—The Arab
geographers—The Portuguese explorers—Andrew Battel—British on
the Gambia—French on the Senegal—James Bruce and the Blue
Nile—Timbuktu—Mungo Park and the Niger—South African
explorations—Portugal and Dr Lacerda—Captain Owen—Tuckey and the
Congo—Major Laing—René Caillé—British Government expeditions in
Tripoli,—Bornu, Lake Chad, and Sokoto—Lander and the Niger
mouth—Barth and, the Western Sudan—the Jewish explorer
Mordokhai—Krapf, Rebmann, and the Snow
Mountains—Livingstone—Burton and Speke, Speke and Grant—Samuel
Baker—Livingstone and Kirk—French explorers in North-West
Africa—Livingstone and Central
Africa—Cameron—Rohlfs—Nachtigal—Alexandrine Tinne—Paul du
Chaillu—Winwood Reade—Stanley and the Congo—Portuguese
explorers—Schweinfurth and the Wele—Nile explorers—Nyasaland
explorations—Pogge, Reichard, Boehm, and von Bary—Dr
Felkin—Joseph Thomson—George Grenfell—von Wissmann—Emin
Pasha—Cameroons explorers—Nigerian and Chad
explorations—Tanganyika, Somaliland, and East African
discoveries—Kilima-njaro—Morocco—Marchand—Madagascar—Remarkable
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