War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . ore northerly route than he hadfollowed in going westward to Loanda, went down the Zandeze toits mouth at Quilimane, and discovered on his way the wonderful Vic-toria Falls of the river. The year 1857 was one of great interest to African travelers. Inthe southwest Damara Land was explored by Hahn and Rath, as faras the southern limit of the Portuguese territory. Dr. Bastian ex-plored the interior of the Congo
War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . ore northerly route than he hadfollowed in going westward to Loanda, went down the Zandeze toits mouth at Quilimane, and discovered on his way the wonderful Vic-toria Falls of the river. The year 1857 was one of great interest to African travelers. Inthe southwest Damara Land was explored by Hahn and Rath, as faras the southern limit of the Portuguese territory. Dr. Bastian ex-plored the interior of the Congo and Angola, and Du Chaillu started onhis journey to the forest country of the Fan tribes, on the equatorialwest coast. Captains Burton and Specke, under the auspices of the RoyalGeographical Society, two travelers who had previously distinguishedthemselves by a perilous journey to Harar, a trade headquarters in theSomali and Galla country, of the East African promontory, started fromZanzibar to explore the great inland lakes spoken of by the Mombasmissionaries. They succeeded in discovering Lake Tanganyika, andthe southern portion of what was then supposed to be perhaps a greater.
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