Congo | Greatest Adventurers https://www.greatestadventurers.com Free Public Domain PDF e-books about adventurers, explorers, sailors and mountaineers from all over the world – and exciting novels of adventure. Be inspired and learn how the world was discovered. Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:59:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.greatestadventurers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-logo-grøn-trans-mindre-32x32.png Congo | Greatest Adventurers https://www.greatestadventurers.com 32 32 Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire https://www.greatestadventurers.com/narrative-of-an-expedition-to-explore-the-river-zaire/ https://www.greatestadventurers.com/narrative-of-an-expedition-to-explore-the-river-zaire/#respond Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:14:40 +0000 https://greatestadventurers.com/?p=652 Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Congo River, is the publication of the logbooks of Captain J. K. Tuckey and the journals of Professor Smith who lead the scientific work on the expedition. The journey took place ... Read more and download PDF

The post Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire first appeared on Greatest Adventurers.]]> Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Congo River, is the publication of the logbooks of Captain J. K. Tuckey and the journals of Professor Smith who lead the scientific work on the expedition. The journey took place in 1816 in order to gain knowledge about the interior of Africa. At that time it was still a mystery where the River Zaire had its beginning. It was still suggested that River Zaire was a branch of the River Niger. The problem that explorers of the time was faced with was the rivers strong current and massive “floating islands” of vegetation. The river is the second largest in the world when it comes to discharge volume. Captain Irby, who commanded the Amelia some years before, with difficulty succeeded in getting his ship 48 or 50 miles up the river.

The book has some interesting observation, for instance about the bantu-people who addresses the expedition by canoes to sell pigs, goats, eggs and once also a elephant’s tooth and a boy. Diseases were widespread and at most times more than half of the crew were sick.

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