Southern afrika. Southern afrika after 1889

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After 1889 of a wide field in Southern Africa for travellers-pioneers any more does not remain, and the majority of travel of this last period has been devoted finding-out of getting details. Most of all works it has been made in the western part of the British Africa and in the German South West Africa. So, in 1891 the background-fransua has advanced studying of the countries Damara and Namakva. Next year Pfajl has made travel from Port-nollot to the river Orange, has crossed central both east country Namakva and the country Damara in a direction to Windhoek, whence left to the Whale bay. Erg travel is especially valuable on the materials of economic character collected by it. In the early nineties across South West Africa and in particular on area Damara travelled Dove. In the east as work continuation the geological researches Passarge made in 1896-1898 in the neighbourhood with lake Ngami and in laying on northwest from it of area serve. During research of a line of the railway from copper mines Otavi to coast in 1900 and 1901 Gartman has given a new material for knowledge of the river of the Bottom Cunene and the country Ovambo, and the field works finished by 1903 on demarcation of southern border between English and German territories have captured exact shooting the big area. In December, 1907 Hex left from Svakopmunda and has crossed continent in a direction of Beira, having collected on a way a valuable ethnographic material, in particular about bushmenah.