. The story of Africa and its explorers. ections and notes, only part of which histoo-early death permitted him to give to theworld. Africa, however, possesses charms tooirresistible for most of those who have oncelooked upon her beauty—a gift more fatalto her lovers than to herself—and so, by 1S79,Dr. Junker was off once more to the Nile, 260 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. little imagining that seven years would elapsebefore lie could again see Christendom. AjuTikers f^^l^ examination of the Niam-Niamsecond visit or Zandv country, and the solution to Africs. 3» seven years of what was now beginning toj
. The story of Africa and its explorers. ections and notes, only part of which histoo-early death permitted him to give to theworld. Africa, however, possesses charms tooirresistible for most of those who have oncelooked upon her beauty—a gift more fatalto her lovers than to herself—and so, by 1S79,Dr. Junker was off once more to the Nile, 260 THE 8T0BY OF AFRICA. little imagining that seven years would elapsebefore lie could again see Christendom. AjuTikers f^^l^ examination of the Niam-Niamsecond visit or Zandv country, and the solution to Africs. 3» seven years of what was now beginning tojourney. ^^ known as the Welle-Makuaproblem, were the main tasks which heset himself to perform; but on the endless compass bearings only. He did not makeany astronomical observations, being in themain an ethnographer and naturalist. FromKhartoum he again worked his way up theNile and Bahr-el-Ghazel to the Meshera-er-Rek, and thence to Dem Suleiman (, p. 144), whence he turned south intothe country of the notoriously cannibal. EL KHATMIEH, A SUBURB OF KASSALA.(From a Photograph by Mr. Berghof.) tramps backwards and forwards which hetook in the years to come we cannot followhim closely. Much of the ground he travelledover was not new, thouo-h not a little ofit was entirely fresh to geographers, whilea large portion of it had never before beenexamined by a traveller of competent scientificknowledge—not even by Emin, who, indeed,did not make many actual , however, did not give himself outas a geographer, and, in spite of his manyaccomplishments, the chief materials for amap which he brought back were elaborate Niam-Niam. Thanks to the influentialsupport which Junker had received owingto Gordons Gfoodwill, but not a little alsoto his considerate treatment of the natives(falling in with all their rules of etiquette,displaying unwearied patience, and preferringto travel with porters alone rather thanrisk the friction which an armed escortis apt to arou
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