Africa. Nikols

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So outstanding career Mupgo of Park has ended short, but. During two heroic travel it has made more than practical opening, than someone another one and a half centuries prior to it and if it did not manage to resolve a riddle of Niger, it anyway has narrowed limits of a possible error in the future. The matter is that from a conductor-native it has heard, that Niger really did turn on the south, and has had time to inform on it to England.

In 1815 to Niger threefold approach has been conceived. Burkhardt should reach it from Egypt, Nikols-from Kalabara and the X-ray-from of Morocco, however anything from this plan did not leave. Next year on the river Congo has been sent Takki (Tuckey) with the task if it will be possible, to establish connection of Niger with Congo, but also also with other commission. In the written instruction handed over to it it was specified, that ' acquaintance to the river of such size and representing so is a lot of features as Zaire (Congo), at the best on 200 miles from a mouth, is incompatible with present development of a geographical science ', and it was recommended to eliminate this backlog. It has risen across Congo on small distance, but a problem has not resolved. Both it, and many other things participants of its group were lost or still before have departed from the river, or after that.