the Guinean countries after 1889 g. The Colonel destenav

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In 1902 colonel Destenav has done the first exact shooting of lake Chad and nizhego Shari; the same year SHevale has reached sources of the river Shari and has got into almost absolutely unknown area to the southwest from Darfur, and Lefler investigated inflow of Shari-river by Logone-with of the southwest. Soon after that Lanfan has made swimming from the river Benue on the river Shari, and Boyd-Alexander has crossed Africa between Niger and Nile. Both expeditions have given a new material for geography of these areas. In 1907 Lanfan has returned to a southern part of pool of Shari and continued the valuable geographical work. Boyd-Alexander left in last travel to 1910 It has put to itself a problem to cross Africa from Cameroon to Khartum, but it managed to reach only point near to border between Vadai and Darfur where he and has been killed.

While, thus, the set of researches was conducted from the western and southwest parties, English officers in Sudan vigorously moved ahead in this unknown area from the east. It is possible to consider as the beginning of new advancement 1900 when the Peak managed to clear away pass through thickets ' sudda ', partitioning off headwaters of Nile. English military topographers and made earlier in the English-Egyptian Sudan routeing shootings in different districts to the south from the Bahr-ale-Arab, and further their work proceeded trouble-free. One of the newest travel in this area, made in 1916 major Christie, has given a lot of a useful material.