The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . Fici—Uorlh Amtritu as known tii ISOO. F.(. e —Nonb America as known in I900 GEOGRAPHICAL CONQUESTS Nile basin and the surrounding regions, includ-ing Abyssinia, by the travels of Petherick (whoexplored the basin of the Bahr-el-Gazal), Mun-zinger. Beurmann, Heuglin, and others. In themeanwhile the French were pushing into WestAfrica on the side of Senegambia, Du Chaillutraveled in the country back of the Gabun andthrough the wilds of the Ogowe
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . Fici—Uorlh Amtritu as known tii ISOO. F.(. e —Nonb America as known in I900 GEOGRAPHICAL CONQUESTS Nile basin and the surrounding regions, includ-ing Abyssinia, by the travels of Petherick (whoexplored the basin of the Bahr-el-Gazal), Mun-zinger. Beurmann, Heuglin, and others. In themeanwhile the French were pushing into WestAfrica on the side of Senegambia, Du Chaillutraveled in the country back of the Gabun andthrough the wilds of the Ogowe. the home ofthe gorilla and the pygmy Obongo; Burtonscaled the peak of Kamerun, anci Von derDecken explored what is now British EastAfrica. Just as Barth was emerging from the scorch-ing suns of Central Africa, laden with theknowledge of countless peoples, in another con-tinent three equally intrepid Germans proceededto explore the most elevated region of the brothers Schlagintweit crossed the Hima-layas and the Karakoram, traversed the loftyplateau of Tibet, and surmounted the Kuenlun,reaching heights to which no traveler had everclimbed. Soon after Livingstones traverse
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