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Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Nile River
Africa, Southern
Africa, Central
Africa, East
Date:
1861
19th century
Notes:
Map.
Includes portraits of Colonel Faidherbe, Lieutenant Lambert, Edouard Vogel, and Hadji-Moktar-Bou-el-Moghdad, assistant to the Cadi of St. Louis, Senegal, and Johann Ludwig Krapf.
A summary of African exploration to date, beginning with the Roman emperor Nero's effort to find the source of the Nile, in about 60 a.d. Subsequent attempts mentioned are those of Egypt's Mehemet-Ali and the German physician, Ferdinand Werne, around 1840; the Austrian missionary Ignaz Knoblecher (1851) and a traveler, Antoine Brun-Rollet (1855), and then Guillaume Lejean, Alfred Peney, John Petherick, German missionaries John Lewis (Johan Ludwig) Krapf and Johannes Rebmann, K. K. von der Decken, and John Speke and Richard Burton, the latter two ultimately successful.
Also mentioned are explorers working in other parts of Africa: Edouard Vogel, Heinrich (Henry) Barth, and Theodore von Heuglin in the Sudan; Henri Duveyrier, Louis Faidherbe, A. E. Mage, Bou-el-Moghadad, and Messrs. Lambert, Pascal, and Vincent in northwest Africa; David Livingstone, Charles Andersson, and Paul B. Duchaillu [Du Chaillu] south and west of the Great Lakes; and the Hungarian Ladislaüs Magyar to the south and east of Angola.
