Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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longago absorbed into it, they were everydaysights. A more scientific traveller than Moffat, whosecontemporary he was, appeared in 1812 in theperson of Dr. William Burchell,whose name is likely to live, forsome time at least, in Burchells zebra, aspecies which, we have seen, is generally mis-taken for the extinct, or all but extinct, quagga,and in the also extinct white rhinoceros whichhe discovered. He penetrated Bechuanaland asfar as Chue, one degree north of Lithako, tothe country which he calls Karrikarri, butwhich is more familiar as Kalahari, huntingthe wild animals which were everywhereabundant in the route he took, and observingtheir habits with the eye of a trained natur-alist. It was his intention to penetratethrough the Kalahari desert so-called—though in reality it possesses many grassyspots, trees, and an abundance of juicy bulbedplants—to the Portuguese settlements southof the Congo. If he had succeeded in thisdesign, Dr. Burchell would have anticipated Dr. Burchell.
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186 THE STORY OF AFRICA. Livingstone by more than forty years. Less familiar, however, with the natives, and less fortunate in those who accompanied him, he failed to persuade any of them to go with him, the result of which is that this meritorious hunter is now almost solely remembered by the plants and animals brought back by him.-^Among naturalists, however. Dr. Burchell deserves a high place, and, though the country traversed by him was only new to a very small extent, he is not without a reputation in the history of geographical exploration. Under the British rule Cape Colony and the neighbouring countries were so rapidly ran-sacked by a host of travellers that we have been able to name only the principal of them. There were, for example, Thompson t in 1827,David Hume and Robert Scoon, two Scottish ivory traders in 1835-36, and Dr. (afterwardsSir Andrew) Smith in 1835-36, who penetrated far enough north to cross the OrangeRiver nearly 400 miles from its mouth, andadded considerably to our kno

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