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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
Kouka, after a journey from Tripoli, which had occupied 
only three months and fourteen days. 
In February, 1824, Denham and Toole made a trip 
into Luggun, on the south of Lake Tchad. All the 
districts near the lake and its tributary, the Shari, are 
marshy, and Hooded during the rainy season. The 
unhealthiness of the climate was fatal to young Toole, 
who died at Angala, on the 26th of February, at the 
TIIE SULTAN OF LUGGUN. 
early age of twenty-two. Persevering, enterprising, 
bright, and obliging, with plenty of pluck and prudence, 
Toole was a model explorer. 
Luggun was then very little known, its capital, 
Kernok, contained no less than 15,000 inhabitants. The 
people of Luggun, especially the women—who are very 
industrious, and manufacture the finest linens, and 
fabrics of the closest texture—are handsomer and more 
intelligent than those of Bornou. 
The necessary interview with the sultan ended, after 
