A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South PoleSynge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
Discoveries in geography
The Three Graves on Beechey Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
From McCLINTOCK'S _Voyage in Search of Franklin_.
Exploring Parties starting from the _Fox_ . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
From McCLINTOCK'S _Voyage in Search of Franklin_.
Livingstone, with his Wife and Family, at the Discovery of Lake
Ngami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
From LIVINGSTONE'S _Missionary Travels_.
The "Smoke" of the Zambesi (Victoria) Falls . . . . . . . . . . . 447
After a Drawing in LIVINGSTONE'S _Missionary Travels_.
Burton in a Dug-out on Lake Tanganyika . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
After a Drawing by BURTON.
Burton and his Companions on the march to Victoria Nyanza . . . . 453
From a Humorous Sketch by BURTON.
The _Ma-Robert_ on the Zambesi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
After a Drawing in LIVINGSTONE'S _Expedition to the Zambesi_.
M'tesa, King of Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
From SPEKE'S _Journey to Discover the Source of the Nile_.
The Ripon Falls on the Victoria Nyanza . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
From SPEKE'S _Journey to Discover the Source of the Nile_.
Captains Speke and Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Baker and his Wife crossing the Nubian Desert . . . . . . . . . . 469
From BAKER'S _Travels_.
Baker's Boat in a Storm on Lake Albert Nyanza . . . . . . . . . . 471
From BAKER'S _Albert Nyanza_.
The Discovery of Lake Bangweolo, 1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
From LIVINGSTONE'S _Last Journals_, by permission of Mr. John
Murray.
Livingstone at Work on his Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
From a Sketch by H. M. STANLEY.
Livingstone entering the Hut at Ilala on the Night that he Died . 483
From LIVINGSTONE'S _Last Journals_, by permission of Mr. John
Murray.
The last Entries in Livingstone's Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Susi, Livingstone's Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
From a Sketch by H. M. STANLEY.
Stanley and his Men marching through Unyoro . . . . . . . . . . . 489
From a Sketch, by STANLEY, in _Through the Dark Continent_.
"Towards the Unknown": Stanley's Canoes starting from Vinya
Njara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
From _Through the Dark Continent_.
The Seventh Cataract--Stanley Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
From _Through the Dark Continent_.
The Fight below the Confluence of the Aruwimi and Livingstone
Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
From a Sketch, by STANLEY, in _Through the Dark Continent_.
Nordenskiold's Ship, the _Vega_, saluting Cape Chelyuskin . . . . 505
From a Drawing in HOVGAARD'S _Nordenskiold's Voyage_.
Menka, Chief of the Chukches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
The _Vega_ frozen in for the Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
From a Drawing in HOVGAARD'S _Nordenskiold's Voyage_.
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