Central afrika. Harar berton

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In the meantime the second big step on a way to the permission of a problem of Nile has been made. Upon termination of the expedition to Harar Burton has taken part in the Crimean war, and having returned to England, has resolved to select to itself career of the traveller and the researcher. News about opening of Livingstone in the Central Africa and the interest caused by messages Rebmanna and Krapfa, have induced Burton to put forward the expedition project on purpose ' first, lake Udzhidzhi delimitations (that is Tanganyika) and, secondly, findings-out of the sizes of the agricultural production, able to be taken out of internal areas, and ethnographic structure of their population. The London geographical society has approved Burton's project and formulated the task handed over to it as follows:

' the Overall objective of expedition-get by a land from Kilvy or any other point at east coast of Africa as it is possible further in a direction to lake Njasa about which existence we were reached by some hearings... Having found out in this area all that is necessary for you, you should go further on the north, to a ridge, in which mountains as it is designated on our cards, a beret, apparently the beginning the river [Nile]. It is your second large problem... Further, you can return at sole discretion or having gone down downwards across Nile... Or that by which you have come, or any another-depending on of those means what you during that moment will have '.