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TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA (1795) - English
URL: http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/ext/africax.html

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by Mungo Park.

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Discoverers Web: Speke and Grant - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/speke2.html

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John Hanning Speke, who had already fought in the British army in India, first became an explorer in 1854, when he joined Richard Burton on a voyage of exploration to Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia. When in 1856 Burton was again sent out to Africa, this time to search for the source of the Nile in East Africa, he again chose Speke as his second-in-command. Together they discovered Lake Tanganyika, and while Burton lay ill, Speke on his own discovered Lake Victoria. For more on these voyages, see Richard Burton.

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Biography: Charles de Foucauld, hermit, servant of the poor (1 Dec 1916) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/12/01b.html

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Charles Eugene, viscount of Foucauld, was born in 1858. He served as a French Army officer in Algieria beginning in 1881, and prepared a mapping of oases in Morocco in 1883. In 1886 he underwent a religious conversion, and in 1890 he joined a Trappist monastery, but soon left to become a solitary hermit in Palestine. In 1901 he went to Algeria, where he eventually settled at Tamanrasset and there lived the life of a missionary priest and prepared a Taureg dictionary. He was killed in an anti-French uprising on 1 December 1916, by those who said that his goodness tended to create friendly feelings toward the French.

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Discoverers Web: Gil Eannes - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/eannes.html

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Portuguese navigator Eannes originally was a household servant and shield-bearer of Henry the Navigator. Sent on a number of voyages along the coast of northwest Africa, Eannes became the first to round Cape Bojador. The cape was regarded at that time as the edge of the known world, navigation along that coast being particularly difficult. The coast itself has a sinister appearance; off Cape Nonn the sea is red, discolored by the desert sands blown offshore. Beyond Cape Nonn the currents strike the coast obliquely, and heavy swells from the northwest endanger passage through the straight off Cape Juby.

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Discoverers Web: Covilhao - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/covilhao.html

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Portuguese traveller (c.1450-c.1524). Born at Covilha in Beira, Pero da Covilhгo had, in his early years, moved to Castile, where he had for seven years been employed in the service of the duke of Medina Sidonia, in Seville. After his return to Portugal in 1474 he had attached himself to King Afonso V and fought in the war of succession for the throne of Castile (1475-79). He also escorted the king on a fruitless journey to France to seek aid from Louis XI. Under Afonso's successor Joгo II, Covilhгo served as a Portuguese spy, being sent on missions to Tlemcen and Fez, where he learnt Arabic.

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Americans in the Egyptian Army: Charles Chaille-Long - English
URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~atomic_rom/cclong.htm

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Charles Chaillй-Long was a fascinating man. A captain in the Maryland Volunteers with no battle experience, he entered the service of the Khedive as a lieutenant colonel. For four years, he was moved from post to post, but used his time to learn Arabic.

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Discoverers Web: Diogo Cao - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cao.html

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In 1482 King Joгo II (= John II) of Portugal revived interest in the quest for a sea route around Africa to India, and the first of the newly commissioned voyages was that of Diogo Cгo. He left Portugal in midsummer (?) 1482, and coasted West Africa as far as Elmina (in present Ghana) where he took on provisions. Crossing to the Central African coast at Santa Catarina he anchored first in the Bay of Loango, then continued south, placing a stone pillar (padroe) dedicated to St. George at Sгo Antonio de Zaira (= Shark Point), on the southern bank of the mouth of the Rio Poderoso (= Congo, Zaire R.).

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Vita - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza - English
URL: http://www.harvard-magazine.com/issues/jf97/vita.html

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A romantic figure, once the toast of Paris, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, whom French schoolbooks call "the greatest French explorer of his time," is now relatively unknown even in Europe. Count Pietro di Brazza Savorgnani grew up in Rome, where he spent his boyhood reading adventure novels and poring over atlases, using his imagination to fill in the spaces marked "unknown territory" on maps of Africa. He set his heart on a career in the navy, but Risorgimento Italy did not have a well-established fleet. With the help of a family friend, Pietro entered the French naval academy in 1870; at 21 he adopted French citizenship and officially changed his name.

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Discoverers Web: The coast of Africa - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/africa.html

In the history of exploration, 1414 is often taken as an important breaking point, the start of the 'Age of Discovery'. In that year, the Portuguese attacked the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One of the Portuguese was Henry (known as 'Henry the Navigator'), the third son of king John I. He noticed that there was an extensive and profitable trade between the Moroccan cities and gold countries to the south. He also wanted to fight the Muslims even harder.

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Lбszlу Almбsy: the real English patient - English, German, Hungarian
URL: http://lazarus.elte.hu/~zoltorok/almasy/almasyen.htm

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(1895-1951), the important Hungarian desert researcher is a real person, while its character in the Oscar- winner film, The English patient, is mostly fictious. The task of this web page is to give a short biography of one of the last romantic geographic explorers of our planet.

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GREECE - English
URL: http://www.mariner.org/age/greece.html

In 510 B.C., Scylax , a Greek in the Persian Navy, was one of the first to record his travels along the coastlines of India and Egypt. First he traveled overland to the source of the Indus River in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. He then set sail down the river to the Arabian Sea.

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PHOENICIANS - English
URL: http://www.mariner.org/age/phoenicians.html

Little is known of the origins of this group of traders, though their roots are in the eastern Mediterranean. Driven by the desire to acquire new and more cost-effective sources of raw materials and to sell their products to markets other than in their homeland, the Phoenicians covered enormous distances. They were among the first to trace routes to the western Mediterranean and beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar) toward the Atlantic coasts of Africa and Europe.

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EGYPT - English
URL: http://www.mariner.org/age/egypt.html

Some modern scholars maintain that seagoing ships of all kinds are derived from Egyptian prototypes. The earliest recorded voyage by sea took place under the auspices of Pharaoh Snefru about 3200 B.C., where ancient Egyptian records mention the Pharaoh bringing 40 ships from Byblus in Phoenicia. Egyptologists have also discovered hieroglyphics that tell the story of Hannu, who led an expedition from Egypt to the limits of their known world, the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea. This is the first recorded exploring expedition, taking place in 2750 B.C..

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Speke, John Hanning - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0846230.html

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1827–64, English explorer in Africa. He joined Sir Richard Burton in his expeditions to Somaliland (1854) and to E central Africa (1857–59). Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be a source of the Nile. In 1862 he returned to the lake and proved that the Victoria Nile issues from the north end over Ripon Falls. He wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863).

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Park, Mungo - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0837654.html

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1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b. Selkirk, Scotland. After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River. Traveling NE from the Gambia River, he reached the Niger at Segu and proceeded 300 mi (483 km) upstream to Bamako.

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Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0826501.html

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1858–1927, British explorer and colonial official. His early interest in the natural sciences was combined with his concern for the political problems of colonial Africa. He began his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa in 1882 and in 1883 encountered Henry Morton Stanley in the Congo Basin.

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Johnson, Martin Elmer - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0826481.html

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1884–1937, American explorer and author, b. Rockford, Ill. He left home at 14 to work his way to Europe on a cattle boat, returning as a stowaway. He then joined the crew of Jack London's round-the-world cruise on the Snark, and was the only member of the party to complete the trip. His interest in photographing wildlife and native tribes seen on this voyage led him to make several trips for this purpose to the South Sea Islands and Borneo before undertaking (1921) the African expeditions for which he is best known.

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Emin Pasha - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0817259.html

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1840–92, German explorer, whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. A physician, he served (1876–78) under Gen. Charles Gordon in Sudan as a district medical officer. In 1878 he succeeded Gordon as governor of Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Egyptian Sudan.

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Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0816218.html

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1831–1903, French-American explorer in Africa. Born probably in Paris, he spent his youth on the west coast of Africa, where his father was a trader in Gabon. There he learned the native languages and became interested in exploring the interior. Arriving in the United States in 1852, he became a citizen and gained the support of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences for an expedition to explore Gabon.

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Chaillй-Long, Charles - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0811218.html

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, 1842–1917, American soldier, African explorer, and writer, b. Princess Anne, Md. After serving in the Civil War, he was commissioned (1869) in the Egyptian army under Gen. C. G. Gordon. Chaillй-Long explored the Victoria Nile and was awarded a medal by the American Geographical Society. In 1875 he crossed the Congo-Nile divide to the Bahr al Ghazal region.

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