Hugh Clapperton (1788 1827) was a former naval officer who was
determined to explore the course of the River Niger. In 1822 he set
out on an expedition to trace the river by approaching it through
North Africa, though this proved unsuccessful. Three years later,
Clapperton tried again, with plans to start in West Africa, and the
young explorer Richard Lander (1804 1834) joined his party. They
arrived in Badagry (in present-day Nigeria) and eventually crossed
the Niger at Bussa, before reaching Sokoto (in north-west Nigeria),
where Clapperton died from an attack of dysentery. Lander returned
to England and published this two-volume account of the journey in
1830. Volume 2 describes the death of Clapperton and Lander's
eventual return to England, after a series of events including a
near-drowning and an offer of marriage to the daughter of a Yoruba
king.
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