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Mungo Park and the Niger

Mungo Park and the Niger

by Joseph Thomson

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Author
Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Credits
Produced by Sonya Schermann, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
Subject
Park, Mungo, 1771-1806
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 52285
Release Date
June 9, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.The World’s Great Explorers and Explorations. — MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER.
  3. 3.EDITORIAL PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. — FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. — ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT. — MAPS (Printed in Colours). — MAPS IN TEXT.
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. THE FIRST GLIMMERING OF LIGHT.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. MORE LIGHT: THE ARAB PERIOD.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. OPENING UP THE WAY TO THE NIGER.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. PREPARING FOR PARK: THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION.
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. MUNGO PARK.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. AT THE THRESHOLD.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. FROM THE GAMBIA TO THE SENEGAL.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. ACROSS THE SENEGAL BASIN.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. TO LUDAMAR.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. CAPTIVITY IN LUDAMAR.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. TO THE NIGER.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. DOWN THE NIGER TO SILLA.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. THE RETURN THROUGH BAMBARRA.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. REST AT KAMALIA.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. THE SLAVE ROUTE.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. BACK TO THE GAMBIA AND HOME.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. MUNGO PARK AT HOME.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. MUNGO PARK AT HOME—(Continued).
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. PREPARING FOR A NEW EXPEDITION.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX. PARK’S SECOND RETURN TO THE GAMBIA.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. STILL STRUGGLING TOWARDS THE GREAT RIVER.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. TO THE NIGER.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST OF PARK.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. THE FULAH REVOLUTION.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. NEW ENTERPRISES AND NEW THEORIES.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. THE TERMINATION OF THE NIGER.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. THE TERMINATION OF THE NIGER—(Continued).
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. FILLING UP THE DETAILS.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. THE FRENCH ADVANCE TO THE NIGER.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY—(Continued).
  37. 37.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES: — Chorus. — Chorus. — Transcriber's Note:

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