Northwest afrika. Researchers of a valley nila

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In the meantime researchers of a valley of Nile gradually moved ahead on the West, in area the Bahr-ale-gazalja. Some searched for sources of Nile, others moved desire to open unknown areas between a valley of Nile and lake Chad where was lost Fogel. In 1860 Miani and antinori have passed along coast of the rivers the Bahr-ale-gazal and Silly women, and the same area next year have visited Lezhan and Penej. Between 1848 and 1863 a number of travel in this area has made Pitrik. It has got into area Njam-Njam to the north from the river Uelle, and Pjadzha has lived there all 1864. In the same years T.Hejglin and SHtejdner have got for the Bahr-ale-gazal and have reached Gift-fertita. It has led to G.Shvejnfurta's undertaken in 1868-1871 This large German botanik already earlier extremely important travel investigated coast of Red sea and has passed through all northern Ethiopia to Khartum (1863-1866) . During the stay in Khartum SHvejnfurt ' has much had heard much about expeditions behind an ivory, undertaken hartumskimi merchants in the field of sources of Nile '. Having returned to 1868 to Egypt, it has sailed from Suez in Suakin, whence again has passed to Khartum. Here in 1869 it has undertaken the major travel. Its overall objective was to study flora of those equatorial areas on which the western inflows of the top Nile proceed, and to show value of these western inflows, in its opinion, underestimated Spekom and Bejkerom, recently opened a current of Nile from Great Lakes to Gondokoro. Also other, geographical riddle waiting for the permission Further was available.

' Just in December, 1868,-wrote SHvejnfurt-when I was going to act from Khartum, I have received the first data on the people monbutto, on the hearings, living to the south from the country Njam-Njam... [These data] were tsenny already that they concluded some geographical facts which finding-out has dropped out on my share. These facts consisted that to the south from territory Njam-Njam there is a river proceeding on the West that this river is not inflow of Nile and that its coast are occupied by the people sharply differing from typical Negroes '.