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Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816 (Paperback)
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Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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In 1816, an expedition to Africa, commanded by Captain James Tuckey
(1776-1816), set out on HMS Congo, accompanied by the storeship
Dorothy. The aim was to discover more about African geography - of
which relatively little was then known - and in particular the
connection between the River Congo, also known as the Zaire, and
the Niger Basin. The mission failed when eighteen crew members,
including Tuckey, died from virulent fevers and attacks by hostile
natives. However, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty gave
permission for publication of Tuckey's notes, and those of his
Norwegian botanist Christen Smith (1785-1816), who also died during
the voyage. First published in 1818, the work comprises their
narratives of the doomed expedition. At the time it aroused Western
interest in Africa, encouraging further research, and it remains of
interest to geographers, botanists and scholars of African studies
today.
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