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    NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ANNOTATIONS


     


    In 1857 British explorers Burton and Sperke set  out quests in the history of exploration to find the map course of Africa's  White Nile . Over 21 months of their journey after their departure they became first Europeans to discover two of Africans great Lakes. They discovered lake Tanganyika and lake Victoria ( principle of Nile).  Their expendition was to penetration the African interior. 

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Behind Africaˇs explorers, Muslim empires on the make - The Boston Globe.pdf - 2 views

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    NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
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Explorers and Exploration - 2 views

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    Explorers are walking with donkeys, wearing a certain uniform, others are holding spears and walking on a dry land
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American Explorers of Africa.pdf - 2 views

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  • as been made, as should have been done, in regard to the name of Wilkes Land. Americans are a patriotic people, their conduct in the present world war shows it, but, in regard to geographical discoveries outside of the United States made by Americans, they seem too inert and too indifferent to assert themselves and to back up their own sons. Among the geographical discoveries by Americans which are too much neglected at home are those made in Africa. And yet in the closing period of the "age of discovery," in which the secrets of the so-called Dark Continent were revealed, three Americans, Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, Charles Chaille-Long, and Arthur Donaldson Smith, and one An
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      r222200556 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Americans are a patriotic nation, as evidenced by their behavior during the current world war, but they appear too apathetic and inactive to assert themselves and support their own sons when it comes to geographical discoveries made outside of the United States. Africa is one of the continents where Americans have produced geographical discoveries that are far too underappreciated at home. Yet in the final years of the "age of discovery," when the mysteries of the so-called Dark Continent were revealed, four Americans-Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, Charles Chaille-Long, Arthur Donaldson Smith, and Henry M. Stanley-and one Anglo-American-put the majority of the Congo's course on a map and established the existence of an African pygmy race.
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Images of Exploration in Africa: the Art of James Augustus Grant on the Nile Expedition... - 3 views

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  • compatriots
  • cynocephali
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      r222200556 on 26 Apr 23
       
      having a head of a dog
  • ridiculed
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      to make fun of or criticize
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  • source of the Blue Nile well
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      r222200556 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Blue Nile originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia (where it is called the Abay River)
  • the explorer must be scientific, his expertise and accuracy in using the sextant and chronometer to determine exactly where it was he had been on the earth's surface being mirrored by the precision and accuracy of the descriptions and images he offered on his return.
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      r222200556 on 26 Apr 23
       
      The explorer was more advanced hence he used a watch to measure the accurate time is it going to take him to travel and come back.
  • Alejandro Malaspina
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      r222200556 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Alejandro was a Tuscan explorer who spent most of his life as a Spanish naval officer. Under a Spanish royal commission, he undertook a voyage around the world from 1786 to 1788.
  • draughtsmen
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      r222200556 on 26 Apr 23
       
      A person skilled at drawing engineering
  • distortion
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      A misrepresentation of the truth.
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      somebody from one's own country
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