Africa and its exploration : as told by its explorers Mungo Park, Clapperton, the Landers, Livingstone, Barth, Barkie, Denham, Burton, Speke, Caillie, Schweinfurth, Mohr, Stanley, Holub, Serpa, Pinto, Farini, Thomson, Montagu Kerr ; with 600 illustrations and maps
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : S. Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 178
126 AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. Kouka, after a journey from Tripoli, which had occupied only three months and fourteen days. In February, 1824, Denham and Toole made a trip into Luggun, on the south of Lake Tchad. All the districts near the lake and its tributary, the Shari, are marshy, and Hooded… … TIIE SULTAN OF LUGGUN. early age of twenty-two. Persevering, enterprising, bright, and obliging, with plenty of pluck and prudence, Toole was a model explorer. Luggun was then very little known, its capital, Kernok, contained no less than 15,000 inhabitants. The people of Luggun, especially the…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Description and travel
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