The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
FIRST PART. CHAPTER I.
THE DAWN OK A. CENTURY OF DISCOVERY.
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Slackness of discovery during the struggles of the Republic and Empire- Seetzeu's voyages in Syria and Palestine-Hauran and the circumnavigation of the Dead Sea-Decapolis-Journey in Arabia-Burckhardt in Syria-Expeditions in Nubia upon the two branches of the Nile-Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina-The English in India-Webb at the Source of the Ganges-Narrative of a journey in the Punjab-Christie and Pottinger in Scinde-The same explorers cross Eeluchistan into Persia -Elphinstone in Afghanistan-Persia according to Gardane, A. Duprc, Morier, Macdonald-Kinneir, Price, and Ouseley-GuldenstaedtandKlaproth in the Caucasus-Lewis and Clarke in the Rocky Mountains-Raffles in Sumatra and Java...........3
CHAPTER II.
THE EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION OK AFRICA.
I.
Peddie and Campbell in the Soudan-Ritchie and Lyon in Fezzan-Denkam, Oudncy, and Clapperton in Fezzan, and in the Tibboo country-Lake Tchad and

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