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Thus ended the vicissitudes of the Landers’ journey. 
On the 9th June they disembarked at Portsmouth. 
Thus was completely and finally solved the geogra- 
graphical problem which had for so many centuries 
occupied the attention of the civilised world, and been 
the subject of so many different conjectures. The Niger, 
or as the natives call it, the Joliba, or Quorra, is not 
connected with the Nile, and does not lose itself in the 
desert sands or in the waters of Lake Tchad ; it Hows in 
a number of different branches into the ocean on the 
coast of the Gulf of Guinea, at the point known as Cape 
Formosa. The entire glory of this discovery, foreseen 
though it was by scientific men, belongs to the Brothers 
Lander. The vast extent of country traversed by the 
Niger between Yaoorie and the sea was completely 
unknown before their journey. 
So soon as the discoveries made by Lander became 
known in England, several merchants formed themselves 
into a company for developing the resources of the new 
districts. In July, 1832, they equipped two steamers, 
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