{"product_id":"2940012173737","title":"CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS. THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eTHE DAWN OF A CENTURY OF DISCOVERY.\u003cbr\u003e                                                                   PAGE\u003cbr\u003eSlackness of discovery during the struggles of the Republic and\u003cbr\u003eEmpire--Seetzen's voyages in Syria and Palestine--Hauran and the\u003cbr\u003ecircumnavigation of the Dead Sea--Decapolis--Journey in Arabia--\u003cbr\u003eBurckhardt in Syria--Expeditions in Nubia upon the two branches of\u003cbr\u003ethe Nile--Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina--The English in India--Webb\u003cbr\u003eat the Source of the Ganges--Narrative of a journey in the Punjab--\u003cbr\u003eChristie and Pottinger in Scinde--The same explorers cross\u003cbr\u003eBeluchistan into Persia--Elphinstone in Afghanistan--Persia\u003cbr\u003eaccording to Gardane, A. Dupré, Morier, Macdonald-Kinneir, Price,\u003cbr\u003eand Ouseley--Guldenstædt and Klaproth in the Caucasus--Lewis and\u003cbr\u003eClarke in the Rocky Mountains--Raffles in Sumatra and Java  . . . .   3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eTHE EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION OF AFRICA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003ePeddie and Campbell in the Soudan--Ritchie and Lyon in Fezzan--\u003cbr\u003eDenham, Oudney, and Clapperton in Fezzan, and in the Tibboo\u003cbr\u003ecountry--Lake Tchad and its tributaries--Kouka and the chief\u003cbr\u003evillages of Bornou--Mandara--A razzia, or raid, in the Fellatah\u003cbr\u003ecountry--Defeat of the Arabs and death of Boo-Khaloum--Loggan--\u003cbr\u003eDeath of Toole--En route for Kano--Death of Oudney--Kano--\u003cbr\u003eSackatoo--Sultan Bello--Return to Europe  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.\u003cbr\u003eClapperton's second journey--Arrival at Badagry--Yariba and its\u003cbr\u003ecapital Katunga--Boussa--Attempts to get at the truth about Mungo\u003cbr\u003ePark's fate--\"Nyffé,\" Yaourie, and Zegzeg--Arrival at Kano--\u003cbr\u003eDisappointments--Death of Clapperton--Return of Lander to the\u003cbr\u003ecoast--Tuckey on the Congo--Bowditch in Ashantee--Mollien at the\u003cbr\u003esources of the Senegal and Gambia--Major Grey--Caillié at\u003cbr\u003eTimbuctoo--Laing at the sources of the Niger--Richard and John\u003cbr\u003eLander at the mouth of the Niger--Cailliaud and Letorzec in Egypt,\u003cbr\u003eNubia, and the oasis of Siwâh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  85\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003eTHE ORIENTAL SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENT AND AMERICAN DISCOVERIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, and the study of\u003cbr\u003eAssyrian remains up to 1840--Ancient Iran and the Avesta--The\u003cbr\u003esurvey of India and the study of Hindustani--The exploration and\u003cbr\u003emeasurement of the Himalaya mountains--The Arabian Peninsula--\u003cbr\u003eSyria and Palestine--Central Asia and Alexander von Humboldt--Pike\u003cbr\u003eat the sources of the Mississippi, Arkansas, and Red River--Major\u003cbr\u003eLong's two expeditions--General Cass--Schoolcraft at the sources\u003cbr\u003eof the Mississippi--The exploration of New Mexico--Archæological\u003cbr\u003eexpeditions in Central America--Scientific expeditions in Brazil--\u003cbr\u003eSpix and Martin--Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied--D'Orbigny and\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Man  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND PART.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eVOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, AND POLAR EXPEDITIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Russian fur trade--Kruzenstern appointed to the command of an\u003cbr\u003eexpedition--Noukha-Hiva--Nangasaki--Reconnaisance of the coast of\u003cbr\u003eJapan--Yezo--The Ainos--Saghalien--Return to Europe--Otto von\u003cbr\u003eKotzebue--Stay at Easter Island--Penrhyn--The Radak Archipelago--\u003cbr\u003eReturn to Russia--Changes at Otaheite and the Sandwich Islands--\u003cbr\u003eBeechey's Voyage--Easter Island--Pitcairn and the mutineers of the\u003cbr\u003e_Bounty_--The Paumoto Islands--Otaheite and the Sandwich Islands--\u003cbr\u003eThe Bonin Islands--Lütke--The Quebradas of Valparaiso--Holy week\u003cbr\u003ein Chili--New Archangel--The Kaloches--Ounalashka--The Caroline\u003cbr\u003eArchipelago--The canoes of the Caroline Islanders--Guam, a desert\u003cbr\u003eisland--Beauty and happy situation of the Bonin Islands--The\u003cbr\u003eTchouktchees: their manners and their conjurors--Return to Russia . 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eFRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATORS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe journey of Freycinet--Rio de Janeiro and its gipsy\u003cbr\u003einhabitants--The Cape and its wines--The Bay of Sharks--Stay at\u003cbr\u003eTimor--Ombay Island and its cannibal inhabitants--The Papuan\u003cbr\u003eIslands--The pile dwellings of the Alfoers--A dinner with the\u003cbr\u003eGovernor of Guam--Description of the Marianne Islands and their\u003cbr\u003einhabitants--Particulars concerning the Sandwich Islands--Port\u003cbr\u003eJackson and New South Wales--Shipwreck in Berkeley Sound--The\u003cbr\u003eFalkland Islands--Return to France--The voyage of the _Coquille_\u003cbr\u003eunder the command of Duperrey--Martin-Vaz and Trinidad--The Island\u003cbr\u003eof St. Catherine--The independence of Brazil--Berkeley Sound and\u003cbr\u003ethe remains of the _Uranie_--Stay at Conception--The civil war in\u003cbr\u003eChili--The Araucanians--Discoveries in the Dangerous Archipelago--\u003cbr\u003eStay at Otaheite and New Ireland--The Papuans--Stay at Ualan--The\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Islands and their inhabitants--Scientific results of the\u003cbr\u003eexpeditions . . . . 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