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NOETH-EAST AFEICA. 



dated 1367, and preserved in the library of Parma, lays down the African coast as 

 far as Cape Bojador, in a way generally in conformity with the results of the most 

 careful modern surveys. The people of Dieppe on their part claim for their 

 ancestors the glory of having founded a " Little Dieppe " on the Guinea Coast in 

 1364, and of having in 1402 colonised the Canaries under the orders of Jean de 

 Béthencourt.* The Portuguese also, whose navigators claimed to be the first to 



fig. 9. — Chief Eoutes of Explorers in the Interior of Africa (1883). 

 Scale 1 : 75,000,000. 



The courses of rivers and outlines of 

 lakes axe not shown on this map. 



Well known conntries of which accur-.te maps 

 have already been made are shaded in grey. 



1,200 Miles. 



sail into the waters of the " Impenetrable Sea " and open up the " Dark Ocean," 

 regard their missionaries of the sixteenth century as the pioneers in the chief 

 discoveries made in the interior of the continent. Yet long after the time of these 

 missionaries, the maps of Africa continued to be disfigured by the names of peoples 

 described as the " Tongueless," the " Noseless," the " Opistodactyles," with fingers 

 grown backward, or of " Pygmies fighting the cranes for their food." 

 * D'Avezac, " Esquisse générale de l'Afrique." 



