Hugh Clapperton
Hugh Clapperton (May 18th 1788, Annan in the County of Dumfries - April 13rd 1827), traveller and Scottish explorer.
It was useful initially in the navy. In 1820, it left with the major Dixon Denham to go on a journey of discovered in the interior of the Africa. It penetrated in the empire of the Fellatahs, and visited the first the towns of Kanoh, Kachena, Sakatou (1823). It turned over in these regions in 1825, and died in 1827 with Sakatou, of the Dysenterie. Its servant, Richard Lemon Lander, could bring back his papers in Europe. The relation of its two voyages was printed with London, 1826 and 1829, and translated by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès and Philippe François Lasnon of Renaudière.
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