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Verney Lovett Cameron

1844–94

Explorer in Africa. Joined the Royal Navy in 1857. Took part in a second expedition to find David Livingstone in central Africa, 1872–3, and retrieved Livingstone’s journals from Ujiji. Continued travelling in Africa until 1875 and was the first European to cross Africa from east to west. Travelled from Turkey to India, 1878–9, and joined Richard Burton on a mission to west Africa, 1881–2.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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