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Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of captain J.K. Tuckey, r.n. to which is added, the journal of professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing the natural history of that part of the kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows
Tuckey, J.K. (1818). Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of captain J.K. Tuckey, r.n. to which is added, the journal of professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing the natural history of that part of the kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. John Murray: London. LXXXII, 498 pp.

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    Expeditions
    Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo R. [Marine Regions]

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  • Tuckey, J.K.

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  • Leach, W.E. (1818). A general notice of the animals taken by Mr. John Cranch, during the expedition to explore the source of the river Zaire, in: Tuckey, J.K. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of captain J.K. Tuckey, r.n. to which is added, the journal of professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing the natural history of that part of the kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. pp. 407-419, more

Abstract
    In 1816, an expedition to Africa, commanded by Captain James Tuckey (1776–1816), set out on HMS Congo, accompanied by the storeship Dorothy. The aim was to discover more about African geography - of which relatively little was then known - and in particular the connection between the River Congo, also known as the Zaire, and the Niger Basin. The mission failed when eighteen crew members, including Tuckey, died from virulent fevers and attacks by hostile natives. However, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty gave permission for publication of Tuckey's notes, and those of his Norwegian botanist Christen Smith (1785–1816), who also died during the voyage. First published in 1818, the work comprises their narratives of the doomed expedition. At the time it aroused Western interest in Africa, encouraging further research, and it remains of interest to geographers, botanists and scholars of African studies today.

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