Hans Larsen
fl. 1850s
Danish-born cattle drover. Worked as a sailor. Left ship at Walvis Bay, Namibia, circa 1843. Worked as a cattle drover. Head servant to Galton’s expedition in southern Africa, 1850–1. Emigrated to Australia in 1853.
Sources
Andersson 1856, p. 347
Galton 1853, pp. 57 and 75
Wallis 1936, p. 53.
Bibliography
Andersson, Charles John. 1856. Lake Ngami: or, explorations and discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa. London: Hurst and Blackett.
Galton, Francis. 1853. The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa. London: John Murray.
Wallis, J. P. R. 1936. Fortune my foe: the story of Charles John Andersson, African explorer (1827–1867). London: Jonathan Cape.
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