Africa and its inhabitants . erifying this theory that Tuckeys disastrous THE NIOEE. 277 expedition up the Congo was carried out in 1816, while Peddie was to join handswith him by descending the Niger ! Yet in 1802, the geographer Kcichard hadalready traced on the map the true mouth of the river, although even he made itpass through Rennells sSea of Wangura, now identified with Lake Tsad. Iiwas onh in 1880 that the brothers Lander determined its true lower ourse byactual exploration; but the survey of the whole river was not completed till began with Mungo Park, who devoted his life t
Africa and its inhabitants . erifying this theory that Tuckeys disastrous THE NIOEE. 277 expedition up the Congo was carried out in 1816, while Peddie was to join handswith him by descending the Niger ! Yet in 1802, the geographer Kcichard hadalready traced on the map the true mouth of the river, although even he made itpass through Rennells sSea of Wangura, now identified with Lake Tsad. Iiwas onh in 1880 that the brothers Lander determined its true lower ourse byactual exploration; but the survey of the whole river was not completed till began with Mungo Park, who devoted his life to the problem, and who in 17&6reached the Niger at Segu, which he found already as large as the Thames at West-minster, and flomng slowly towards the east. From this point he fullowed it for120 miles down to 8illa, and for the sanre distance up to Bamaku, thus apparentlyverifjang Herodotus account of a great river flowing from west to east across Fisr. 121.—Hypi)THE3ES op the Old Geoobaphees on the Course of the 1 .too Milea. Africa. In 1805 he started on his second voyage from the same village of Bamaku,but after four months floating with the stream he perished with all his party atthe passage of some narrow rapids near Bussa. One slave alone escapwl, and usthe papers were lost in the rapids, no details were received in Kurope of this ill-fated expedition. In 182G Clapperton crossed the Niger below the point where Mungo Park wasdrowned, and the approximate fonu of the rainitications above Timbuktu wasdetermined bv Caillies journey in 1827-28. Lastly, in 18:50. Richard Lander, of Clapperton in the previous expedition, succeeded, with his brother, infollowing the lower course nil the way to its nicuih. •In 1832 Laiug reached the hilly district where the headstrearas have tbeii- 878 WEST AFRICA. source, and in 1869 Winwood Reade crossed the Joliba itself within 110 milesfrom its origin. Ten years later, Zweifel and Moustier came within sight of theTemhikundu
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