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Research of Northwest Africa begins with English ' mixed scientifically-trading ' expeditions to Sudan Richardson was which chief, and its companions Bart and Overveg; later into its structure has entered and Fogel. Expedition left Tunis in December, 1849, on research has started actually only since Tripoli, whence it has acted in February of next year. The expedition way laid through Murzuk, Ghats and Agades and further through desert then ways have dispersed: Bart has gone to Kano and therefrom on Cook where it should incorporate to other members of the expedition, moving more east by. During travel Richardson has died, and command of expedition has passed to Bart. It managed to investigate the lake Chad, which good description it has left.

' Chad, he-wrote, has character of the enormous lagoon which outlines vary every month why they cannot be plotted a little precisely. It is necessary to tell, that when today, on April, 24th, 1851, I have inspected the nature of those marshy lowlands that surround this lake or a lagoon, I have realised full impossibility to make shooting of its coast even if position in areas surrounding him has allowed us to start performance of the such enterprise. The only thing that it is possible to make,-it, on the one hand, to fix extreme boundaries what are reached from time to time by the spread lagoon, and, with another,-define an extent of navigable sites '.