Northwest afrika. The seaside countries

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As to the seaside countries located at gulf of Guinea after opening Lendera and pioneers-researchers of Niger - it has been made a little. In 1854 V.B.Bejki left with expedition to Niger for trade opening; in hope to meet and work together with Bart it has floated almost 500 km upwards across Benue and has definitely established, that this that river which is open by Bart; but to meet the last to it and it was not possible. The second expedition has reached in 1857 Lokodzhi, but consistently replaced British offices were not interested in Niger, and merchants coming here the general had no anything with geography. Thus, short of few isolated attempts, any successes in this area was not. In 1861 in Fernando Po has been sent as consul Richard Burton, already become famous for the travel across Arabia and East Africa. It has taken advantage of a case and investigated small area in mountains of Cameroon. In 1868 The Anderson managed to give something to geography of one of the least visited sites of the western coast, namely Liberia. Read has passed in the country Ashanti for the first time in 1872 It has visited it again next year when war with ashantijami has allowed to Englishmen a case to get into their country. However Read pessimistically looked at the future of opening in the Western Africa. ' Time of opening in this part of Africa, was-written by him,-has passed; Niger has got out of fashion, and the present generation is interested in only one Nile '. According to it all large opening in the Western Africa have been made by Frenchmen and the Germans feeding for it sharp political interest.