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++++ Observations Systematical And Geographical On The Herbarium
Collected By Professor Christian Smith, In The Vicinity Of The
Congo: During The Expedition To Explore That River, Under The
Command Of Captain Tuckey In The Year 1816 reprint Robert Brown,
Christen Smith Printed by W. Bulmer, 1818 Science; Life Sciences;
Botany; Botany; Science / Life Sciences / Botany
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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