En Avant (steam launch)
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The En Avant was a small steam launch used in the early days of European exploration of the Congo River basin. It was carried in sections past the cataracts of the lower Congo, reassembled at Stanley
En Avant on the Congo River 1889
En Avant (L), A.I.A. (C) and Roi des Belges (R) — Leopoldville, 1889
The River Congo seen from the plateau at Manyanga
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) in 1884
Edde Gleerup
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Sten Edvard Gleerup, or Edde Gleerup, was a Swedish soldier and explorer. He was the first Swede and eighth European to cross Africa.
