Famous Explorers of Africa

Famous Explorers of Africa <b>Mungo Park</b> Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who led one of the first expeditions to investigate the course of the Niger river in Western Africa. Mungo Park was a 23 year-old scottish surgeon surgeon who had just returned from a journey to Sumatra on a ship of the East India Company. There he had discovered 6 species of fish, he had published descriptions in a Scientific Journal. In 1795, Park had …

…the exploration the source of the Nile. In 1860 James Speke and James Grant had gone for further research of the Nile. On this Expedition Speke reported of how the kingdoms along the Nile. Speke had said "I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Lake , and as I foretold, that the Nile is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first exfounder [moses] of our religious belief".