TAILIEUCHUNG - Book Great African Travellers

When the fathers of the present generation were young men, and George the Third ruled the land, they imagined that the whole interior of Africa was one howling wilderness of burning sand, roamed over by brown tribes in the north and south, and by black tribes--if human beings there were--on either side of the equator, and along the west coast. The maps then existing afforded them no information. Of the Mountains of the Moon they knew about as much as of the mountains in the moon. The Nile was not explored--its sources unknown--the course of the Niger was a mystery. They were aware that the elephant,. | 1 CHAPTER ONE. CHAPTER TWO. CHAPTER THREE. CHAPTER FOUR. CHAPTER FIVE. CHAPTER SIX. CHAPTER SEVEN. CHAPTER EIGHT. CHAPTER NINE. CHAPTER TEN. CHAPTER ELEVEN. CHAPTER TWELVE. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. CHAPTER NINETEEN. CHAPTER TWENTY. CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY Great African Travellers from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley 2 by . Kingston. CHAPTER ONE. 3 CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTORY. INTRODUCTION--THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION--LEDYARD--LUCAS--FIRST INFORMATION RESPECTING THE NIGER OR QUORRA AND THE GAMBIA--TIMBUCTOO HEARD OF--THOMPSON AND JOBSON S VOYAGE UP THE GAMBIA--MAJOR HAUGHTON S EXPEDITION AND DEATH. When the fathers of the present generation were young men and George the Third ruled the land they imagined that the whole interior of Africa was one howling wilderness of burning sand roamed over by brown tribes in the north and south and by black tribes--if human beings there were--on either side of the equator and along the west coast. The maps then existing afforded them no information. Of the Mountains of the Moon they knew about as much as of the mountains in the moon. The Nile was not explored--its sources unknown--the course of the Niger was a mystery. They were aware that the elephant rhinoceros cameleopard zebra lion and many other strange beasts ranged over its sandy deserts but very little more about them than the fact of their existence was known. They knew that on the north coast dwelt the descendants of the Greek and Roman colonists and of their Arab conquerors--that there were such places as Tangiers Tripoli Tunis Algiers with its piratical cruisers who carried off white men into slavery Morocco with an emperor addicted to cutting off heads Salee which sent forth its rovers far over the ocean to plunder merchantmen and a few other towns and forts for the possession of which Europeans had .

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