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fatal a bar to the progress of his predecessors. He 

 reached Egypt in September 1797, and next year, 

 having proceeded westward with the caravan for 

 Fezzan, he visited Siwah, Mourzouk, and Tripoli. 

 In 1800, he directed his course southward, and for 

 two years no accounts of him were received by the 

 African Association. In 1803, it was reported he 

 was residing in safety at Kashna, but Major Denham 

 afterwards learned that he had fallen a victim to 

 the climate, after penetrating as far as Nyffe on the 

 Niger, which he was erroneously informed by the 

 Arabs flowed into the White River, the main artery 

 of the Nile. 



The Society found others willing to undertake 

 the perilous experiment of African discovery. Mr. 

 Nicholls, in 1804, had to make his way into the in- 

 terior from the Gulf of Benin ; while another German, 

 named Roentgen, also recommended by Professor 

 Blumenbach, chose the route by Morocco ; but both 

 died at the very commencement of their journey. 



It is not connected with our purpose to give any 

 account of the numerous subsequent adventurers 

 who embarked in the same enterprise, either under 

 the auspices of the Society or in expeditions fitted 

 out by the British government. The successive at- 

 tempts made by Riley, Tuckey, Campbell, Laing, 

 Gray, Ritchie, Lyon, Denham, Oudney, Clapperton, 

 and the Landers, although directed to the same ob- 

 ject, were applied to regions very different from 

 those explored with so much success by the indi- 

 vidual who forms the subject of this Memoir. 



