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Beke, Charles Tilstone - English
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1800–1874, English explorer and author. In Ethiopia in 1840–43 he mapped c. 70,000 sq mi (181,300 sq km) of the country, determined the approximate course of the Blue Nile, and compiled vocabularies of 14 languages and dialects. He wrote Origines Biblicae (1834), The Sources of the Nile (1860), and The British Captives in Abyssinia (1865).

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BEKE, Charles T[ilstone] - English
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The Sources of the Nile: Being a general survey of the basin of the river, and of its head-streams; with the history of Nilotic discovery.

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BEKE, CHARLES TILSTONE - English
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English traveller, geographer and Biblical critic, was born in Stcpney, Middlesex, on the 10th of October 1800. His father was a merchant in London, and Bake engaged for a few years in mercantile pursuits. He afterwards studied law at Lincoln’s Inn, and for a time practised at the bar, but finally devoted himself to the study of historical, geographical and ethnographical subjects.

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Beke, Charles Tilstone. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
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English explorer and author. In Ethiopia in 1840–43 he mapped c.70,000 sq mi (181,300 sq km) of the country, determined the approximate course of the Blue Nile, and compiled vocabularies of 14 languages and dialects.

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1Up Info - Beke, Charles Tilstone (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
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1800–1874, English explorer and author. In Ethiopia in 1840–43 he mapped c.70,000 sq mi (181,300 sq km) of the country, determined the approximate course of the Blue Nile, and compiled vocabularies of 14 languages and dialects. He wrote Origines Biblicae (1834), The Sources of the Nile (1860), and The British Captives in Abyssinia (1865).

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