Featured on PDR in the essay Forgotten Failures of African Exploration

Dane Kennedy reflects on two disastrous expeditions into Africa organised by the British in the early-19th century, and how their lofty ambitions crumbled before the implacable realities of the continent.

Copies of figures on the face of the Fetiche Rock

Date

1818

From

Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816


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