Northwest afrika. The Frenchman benzhe

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However Frenchman Benzhe in 1887 and the subsequent has most of all enriched years geography. Its initial efforts have been directed on studying of unknown area to the south from a bend of Niger. Before its travel there was a belief that a valley of Niger very wide. Benzhe, on the contrary, has proved, that it absolutely narrow and that the river Volta originates near to a current of Niger. It has proved also, that the big mountain chain appearing on much cards crossing all this area approximately lengthways 10 ° with. sh., actually does not exist. Benzhe has made not less and during the second period of the activity but as it is beyond the given section, we will consider its these achievements in other place.

It is necessary to mention one more travel, remarkable not so much any fruitful geographical results, how many as some kind of a record, travel Matteuchi and Massari, crossed Africa in 1882 from the east on the West from Suakina through Kordofan, Vadaj, to Born and Kapo to Niger.