Hugh Clapperton
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Bain Hugh Clapperton was a British naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa.
An engraving by Thomas Goff Lupton from a picture by Gildon Manton (1828)
Denham and Clapperton received by Sheikh al-Kaneimi at Kuka
Mungo Park (explorer)
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Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of
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…dead of fever. Clapperton continued his journey, and, passing through the Yoruba country, in January 1826 he crossed the Niger at Bussa, the spot where Mungo Park had died twenty years before. In July, Clapperton arrived at Kano and thence the Fulani capital Sokoto, intending to continue to Bornu and renew his…
Posthumous portrait (1859) by unknown artist
Mungo Park commemorative medal
View of Kamalia in Mandingo country, Africa, from: Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Park was one of the first European explorers of Central Africa, and was one of the first explorers mentioned in Reisen in Central-Afrika – von Mungo Park bis auf Dr. Barth u. Dr. Vogel (1859) (Travels in Central-Africa – from Mungo Park to Dr. Barth and Dr. Vogel)