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 28
6 AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. but since the discoveries of Denham and Clapperton, Barth, and others, it has appeared more probable that the stream was the Yeou or river of Bornou. The distance from Gyrene thither is not so great ; and no¬ where but in the Tchad can we find those mighty lakes which… … the whole, it must appear truly wonderful that these efforts, made at so early an era, should have led to dis¬ coveries, respecting both the maritime outline and the interior of the continent, which Europeans could not regain for thousands of years, and one of which, at the present day, is still…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Description and travel
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