The Marchand expedition: resting at Bahr-el-Gazal, Sudan, June 1897. In 1896-1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934), a French army officer, led an expedition which crossed Africa from the mouth of the Congo via the White Nile to Fashoda (Kodok) in the Sudan. Part of a Private Collection and the artist is unknown.

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