Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Great African Travellers, by W.H.G. KingstonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Great African TravellersFrom Mungo Park to Livingstone and StanleyAuthor: W.H.G. KingstonRelease Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21391]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT AFRICAN TRAVELLERS ***Produced by Nick Hodson of London, EnglandW.H.G. Kingston"Great African Travellers"From Mungo Park To Livingstone And Stanley.Chapter One.Introductory.Introduction—The African Association—Ledyard—Lucas—First information respecting theNiger, or Quorra, and the Gambia—Timbuctoo heard of—Thompson and Jobson’s voyage upthe Gambia—Major Haughton’s expedition and death.When the fathers of the present generation were young men, and George the Third ruled the land,they imagined that the whole interior of Africa was one howling wilderness of burning sand, roamedover by brown tribes in the north and south, and by black tribes—if human beings there were—oneither side of the equator, and along the west coast.The maps then existing afforded them no information. Of the Mountains of the Moon they knewabout as much as of the mountains in the moon. The Nile was not explored—its sources unknown—the course of the Niger was a ...